American - Musician | September 23, 1949 -
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen
EyeConnectionsDoingSillyYouGo
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
TraditionStorytellingNarrativeLike
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
MusicProcessLossInnocenceYou
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
LifeWorkBeginningLongWould
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.
AgeFaithMomentMeWritingWay
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
PastFunSayIn The PastGoingMost
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
MePlayDoneCleanUpOrder
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
MusicCharacterTalentChurchYou
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
AttentionWanderGoWhateverBuy
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
MusicGreatCityWorldBackEarly
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
ViewAmericaCountryRealGuess
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
SocietyThinkYouBecomeRightUp
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Bruce Springsteen quotes