American musician (1949- )
It was terrible, you know. In truth, it was awful, an awful way to make records but it was the only way we knew how. Everybody simply suffered through it and the endless, endless, endless hours I can't begin to explain.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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interview, NPR, January 15, 2014
What I have gotten used to doing is I do delegate a lot more in the studio than I used to, which is nice because I don't think I could work the way I did in my 20s when I, we had a little bit of the half-blind leading the blind in that we all went in and just recorded until a record happened.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, NPR, January 15, 2014
It was a moment when your music was the totality of your identity, and so you were so caught up and so invested in it.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015
Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest,
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Backstreets", Born to Run
Now I know your mama she don't like me 'cause I play in a rock and roll band.
And I know your daddy he don't dig me but he never did understand.
Papa lowered the boom, he locked you in your room;
I'm comin' to lend a hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking
Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote.
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat.
We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"The River"
Everybody's got a secret Sonny,
Something that they just can't face.
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it;
They carry it with them every step that they take.
Till some day they just cut it loose.
Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down
Where no one asks any questions,
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard, and I wanted it to sound enormous and I wanted it to grab you by your throat and insist that you take that ride, insist that you pay attention, not to just the music, but just to life, to feeling alive, to being alive.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015
I was unrecognizable to myself.
I saw my reflection in a window I didn't know
My own face.
Oh brother are you gonna leave me?
Wastin' away
On the streets of Philadelphia.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Streets of Philadelphia"
Now a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure
Don't make much for tragedy.
But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
And can't stand the company.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Better Days", Lucky Town
Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Q Magazine, August, 1992
And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce,
Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light.
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Blinded by the Light"
If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, NPR, January 15, 2014
It's very strange, I've always thought, that the first thing that people do, when they come out on tour, is they break the album completely up. They play a few songs here, a few songs there ... it's actually very unusual, considering all the time and the care you take in the sequencing and in the content of the record.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Backstreets, December 10, 2015
The wise men were all fools, what to do?
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Last to Die", Magic
Your producer is always your first audience.... He's the first guy you play the song for, he's the first guy you are seducing with the music that you've written -- you're trying to get him excited about what he thinks he can do with it -- and then it just, you know, it just starts to become cumulatively explosive, you know.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, NPR, January 15, 2014
I was always concerned with, you know, the show is about this moment, it's about you, it's about tonight. This moment belongs to the people that are in the room, and that was my first and foremost concern. And anything that got in the way of that, I was against at the time.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Backstreets, December 10, 2015
It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town
Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time.
Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign.
If there's a light up ahead well brother I don't know.
But I got this fever burnin' in my soul.
So let's take the good times as they go,
And I'll meet you further on up the road.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Further On (Up the Road)", The Rising