Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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Bruce Springsteen

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1949

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

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

Bruce Springsteen

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Bruce Springsteen

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

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 still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Bruce Springsteen