Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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Bruce Springsteen

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1949

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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When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

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When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

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

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I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

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In America everything's about who's number one today.

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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

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I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have been very familiar to my pop, you know? Except it was a part of himself he was trying to reject, so I got caught in the middle of it, I think.

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A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

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Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

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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.

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I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

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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.

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Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

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You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

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I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

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I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

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On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

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When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

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I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

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