Bruce Springsteen Quotes

American - Musician | September 23, 1949 -

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

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I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

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GoodMusicBadRealEverythingElse

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

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MeNightAudienceGroundGetHigher

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

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MusicRelationshipPeopleYouStreet

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

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LifePeopleBelieveYouTryOutside

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

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LiveAmericanAmericaTryingCountry

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

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You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

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YouFindCreateShowAnewNightly

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

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CreativeYouArtistPersonEscape

I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by.

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GreatTimeManDedicationPeople

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

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WorkDemocracySmallDifficultOut

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.

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