Bruce Springsteen quotes - page 8

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns. (Bruce Springsteen)
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright. View quote
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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over. View quote
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You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force. . . not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--about surrender. View quote
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Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse. View quote
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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. View quote
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I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. View quote
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I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. View quote
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Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique. View quote
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An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next. View quote
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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)
Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was real good at music and real bad at everything else. View quote
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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. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. View quote
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You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. View quote
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I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. View quote
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We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. (Bruce Springsteen)
When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways. View quote
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Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. View quote
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But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. View quote
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But 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. View quote
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