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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I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Bruce Springsteen

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 supported me as I went along.

Bruce Springsteen

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when you...

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

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 I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes...

Bruce Springsteen

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Bruce Springsteen

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 school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Bruce Springsteen

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Bruce Springsteen

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Bruce Springsteen

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Bruce Springsteen

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 gay and lesbian civil rights.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

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

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

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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

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

Bruce Springsteen

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