Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteenis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1949
CityLong Beach, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
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.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
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.
Two hearts are better than one.
I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.
Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.