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
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
Born down in a dead man's town; The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.
They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!
Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.
We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.
In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
...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.
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.