Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteenis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1949
CityLong Beach, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Bruce Springsteen quotes about
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.
Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.
Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.