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
It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
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.
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.
Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.
...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.
Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.