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
I saw things I've never seen in an American city. The criminal ineptitude makes you furious. This is what happens when you play political games with people's lives.
Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong, they're still there, he's all gone.
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright.
We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us.
We remain a land of great promise, but we must move on, ... humility in exercising our power around the world.
The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
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. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.
I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know? Mrs. McGrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.
I was 25 years old, with no place to go and nothing to do ? that helped, ... We worked, and worked, and worked. It was very frustrating. But in the end, luckily, all of everything we did ended up in there.
I'm in search of how to take the stuff I've written and make sure the audience hears it fresh again. It's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it.
I have no rules left. I don't have to get on the radio. It's wide open for me. The singer-songwriters I admire - Dylan, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie - move forward all the time.