Explore Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

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.

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

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.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

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.

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.

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.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

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.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.