Bruce Springsteen Quotes And Sayings

I Was Signed To A Record Label At The Same Time As My Friend Elliot Murphy, Who Makes Great Records To This Day.

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 I Had Before I Ever Signed A Record Contract. We Had Singers And Horns.

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.

I Have To Write And Play. If I Became An Electrician Tomorrow, I'd Still Come Home At Night And Write Songs.

I Never Felt I Had Enough Personal Style To Pursue Being Just A Guitarist.

I Do A Lot Of Curiosity Buying; I Buy It If I Like The Album Cover, I Buy It If I Like The Name Of The Band, Anything That Sparks My Imagination.

The Name 'Boss' Started With People That Worked For Me... It Was Not Meant Like Boss, Capital B, It Was Meant Like 'Boss, Where's My Dough This Week?' And It Was Sort Of Just A Term Among Friends. I Never Really Liked It.

When You Get Fat And Lose Your Hunger. That Is When You Know The Sellout Has Happened.

'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' Came Out Of A Huge Body Of Work That Had Tons Of Very Happy Songs.

That's What Being A Front Man Is All About - The Idea Of Having Something Supple Underneath You, That Machine That Roars And Can Turn On A Dime.

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 Conditioning.

I Was Looking For Some Way To Put My Music To Some Service On A Nightly Basis. You Go Into A Town, You Play A Little Music, You Leave Something Behind. That Idea Connected Us To The Local Community. It Was A Very Simple Idea, But It Really Resonated With Me.

Anyone Who's Grown Up Or Lived On The Jersey Shore Knows The Place Is Unique.

Pessimism And Optimism Are Slammed Up Against Each Other In My Records, The Tension Between Them Is Where It's All At, It's What Lights The Fire.

The Jersey Shore Is The Kind Of Place Where The Policeman Has A Little Cottage That Might Have Been In The Family For Years And Many Other People Call Home.

I Was In My Late 20s, In The Process Of Shaping My Musical Outlook And What I Wanted It To Be About, When I First Encountered Woody Guthrie.

I Guess My View Of America Is Of A Real Bighearted Country, Real Compassionate.

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.

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.

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.

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, But If You Were A Kid, You Were Just Completely Tuned In, Even Though You Didn't Always Say - You Wouldn't Dare Say It Was Beautiful.

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 Lost Some Essential Part Of Themselves. My Greatest Fear Was That Success Was Going To Change Or Diminish That Part Of Myself.

I Was Real Good At Music And Real Bad At Everything Else.

All I Try To Do Is To Write Music That Feels Meaningful To Me, That Has Commitment And Passion Behind It.

I Don't Write Demographically. I Don't Write A Song To Reach These People Or Those People.

I Think That Is What Film And Art And Music Do; They Can Work As A Map Of Sorts For Your Feelings.

But I Think That Your Entire Life Is A Process Of Sorting Out Some Of Those Early Messages That You Got.