All Bruce Springsteen Quotes
- I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain… Always Wanted
- My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about… Been
- In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do?… Closet
- After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me… Born
- All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records,… All
- An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get… Become Something
- For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing… Adult
- I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life… Believe
- I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band… Band
- I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a… Acted
- I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as… Assume
- I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs,… All
- I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set… Basic
- I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that… Age
- I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had… Airplane
- I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in… Almost Every
- If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because… Album
- If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully… Beatle
- In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had… Altar
- My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in… Band
- No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was… 80s
- Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was… Audience
- Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always… Band
- The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He… All
- The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've… All