On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
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. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
I’m always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
A good song gathers the years in. It’s why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it’s been written. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
Most bands don’t work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
At the time, there was a great disagreement over ‘The Wild and the Innocent,’ and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn’t do it, and they basically said, ‘Well hey, look, it’s going to go in the trash can.’ That’s the record business, you know. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
I think there’s only eight songs on ‘Born to Run’ – I don’t think it’s much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense – though we weren’t thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
