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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Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

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It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

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Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.

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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

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You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

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Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your co...

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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 was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

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It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

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The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

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You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

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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 up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

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Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

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Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

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Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

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And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

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The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don'...

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All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

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But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

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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