Bruce Springsteen quotes
Born
September 23, 1949, Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
Songwriter, singer, musician.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band. Nicknamed “The Boss”, he is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, his Jersey Shore roots, his distinctive voice, and his lengthy and energetic stage performances.
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.
– Bruce Springsteen
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
– Bruce Springsteen
I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
In America everything’s about who’s number one today.
– Bruce Springsteen
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
– Bruce Springsteen
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
– Bruce Springsteen
It’s always felt natural, because I’m generally very comfortable with people.
– Bruce Springsteen
There is something about the melody of ‘Thunder Road’ that just suggests ‘new day.’ It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
– Bruce Springsteen
A good song gathers the years in. It’s why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it’s been written.
– Bruce Springsteen
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I’d still come home at night and write songs.
– Bruce Springsteen
We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.
– Bruce Springsteen
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
– Bruce Springsteen
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future – that’s fabulous.
– Bruce Springsteen
‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
– Bruce Springsteen
Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
– Bruce Springsteen
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad’s life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.
– Bruce Springsteen
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
– Bruce Springsteen
I’m always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.
– Bruce Springsteen
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.
– Bruce Springsteen
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
– Bruce Springsteen
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
– Bruce Springsteen
I think politics come out of psychology.
– Bruce Springsteen