Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 14

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.

I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.