Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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Bruce Springsteen

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1949

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

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

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 your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

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

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

Bruce Springsteen

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

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Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

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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 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.

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

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

Bruce Springsteen

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

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Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

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

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

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I think politics come out of psychology.

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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.

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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.

Bruce Springsteen

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.

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