American musician (1949- )
I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard, and I wanted it to sound enormous and I wanted it to grab you by your throat and insist that you take that ride, insist that you pay attention, not to just the music, but just to life, to feeling alive, to being alive.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015
What I have gotten used to doing is I do delegate a lot more in the studio than I used to, which is nice because I don't think I could work the way I did in my 20s when I, we had a little bit of the half-blind leading the blind in that we all went in and just recorded until a record happened.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, NPR, January 15, 2014
Poor man wanna be rich;
Rich man wanna be king.
And a king ain't satisfied
Till he rules everything.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town
Now you play the loving woman;
I'll play the faithful man.
But just don't look too close into the palm of my hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Brilliant Disguise", Tunnel of Love
If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, NPR, January 15, 2014
There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking
It's very strange, I've always thought, that the first thing that people do, when they come out on tour, is they break the album completely up. They play a few songs here, a few songs there ... it's actually very unusual, considering all the time and the care you take in the sequencing and in the content of the record.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Backstreets, December 10, 2015
The wise men were all fools, what to do?
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Last to Die", Magic
Now a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure
Don't make much for tragedy.
But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
And can't stand the company.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Better Days", Lucky Town
Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest,
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Backstreets", Born to Run
I was unrecognizable to myself.
I saw my reflection in a window I didn't know
My own face.
Oh brother are you gonna leave me?
Wastin' away
On the streets of Philadelphia.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Streets of Philadelphia"
Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that I can't,
And that no matter what I do it's all over now between me and you girl.
But I can't believe what you say;
No I can't believe what you say 'cause baby
I don't wanna fade away.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Fade Away", The River
Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Q Magazine, August, 1992
Now I know your mama she don't like me 'cause I play in a rock and roll band.
And I know your daddy he don't dig me but he never did understand.
Papa lowered the boom, he locked you in your room;
I'm comin' to lend a hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
It was a moment when your music was the totality of your identity, and so you were so caught up and so invested in it.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015
It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town
Everybody's got a secret Sonny,
Something that they just can't face.
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it;
They carry it with them every step that they take.
Till some day they just cut it loose.
Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down
Where no one asks any questions,
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote.
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat.
We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"The River"
The times are tough now, just getting tougher.
This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher.
Cover me, come on baby, cover me.
Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Cover Me", Born in the U.S.A.
And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce,
Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light.
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Blinded by the Light"