I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with... →
Bruce Springsteen
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave... →
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
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... →
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... →
I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something... →
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it... →
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing... →
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... →