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
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.
Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong, they're still there, he's all gone.
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
Bruce Springsteen and the Trope of the Female Salvator?
We're here tonight with a mission, we're here tonight with a purpose,
Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.