Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

About Bruce Springsteen:

Bruce Springsteen is an American musician, singer, songwriter and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working-class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length.
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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 sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

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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 had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guit...

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I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

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If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

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You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

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I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

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I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I ...

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You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

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Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite ...

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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

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Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

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But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

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From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

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I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

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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 outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

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The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

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Author Bio

  • NameBruce Springsteen
  • DescriptionAmerican rock singer-songwriter
  • AliasesBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; The Boss; Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
  • BornSeptember 23, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSongwriter; Singer; Guitarist; Singer-songwriter; Composer
  • AwardsMusiCares Person Of The Year; Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame