Bruce Springsteen quotes - page 7

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. (Bruce Springsteen)
I think politics come out of psychology. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right. View quote
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When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know. View quote
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I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie. View quote
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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. View quote
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You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records. (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. View quote
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Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting. View quote
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I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate. View quote
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You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on. View quote
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And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder. View quote
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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. View quote
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On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience. View quote
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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. View quote
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