I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I’d still come home at night and write songs. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
The name ‘Boss’ started with people that worked for me… It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like ‘Boss, where’s my dough this week?’ And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
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. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
That’s what being a front man is all about – the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
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. Bruce Springsteen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
