Feel Quotes

I think politics come out of psychology.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Politics Think Out

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: You Your Make

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

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: About Everything America

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Real Country America

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Like Being Part

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Just Day Record

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

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: People Those Write

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

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Work Out Very

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Sad Own Man

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Music Me Try

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

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Family About Up

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: You About Being

When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: You People About

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Dad Think Out

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: You Life Your

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Society You Get

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Age Faith Me

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Good You Very

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Good About Get

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Society You Think

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

Tags: You Your Go

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Time Up Always

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Just Had Years

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Get Want Things

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Time You Life

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: People Things Only

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: You Every Could

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Work Family War

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Music You About

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Tags: Time You About