Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 12

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.

I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.