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
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.
Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.
I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.
I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.
I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.
Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.
There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know.
There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.
I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.
I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.
I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.