Bruce Springsteen (born in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States) is an American rock musician, guitarist, vocalist and also songwriter. Springsteen is internationally known for its mix of involved rock music, poetic verses and his moods of Americana centered around the home state of New Jersey. Springsteen has toured and videotaped discs, mostly with his group E Street Band, however also alone and with others musicians.
Springsteen's recordings have contained both readily available rock cd as well as more melancholy folk-oriented works. When he debuted with the folk-like Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ (1973), he was compared to Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. The innovation cd Born to Run (1975) represented a new strength, and has been referred to as groundbreaking. By The River (1980), he remained to depict the American working class day-to-day live, while the subtle, acoustic Nebraska. (1982) revealed a more melancholy side of him. His largest industrial success is Born in the USA (1984) with 7 solitary sheets. With records like The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) as well as We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006), he highlighted his connections to the politically involved American people music, while The Rising (2002) was an effort to provide voice to misery after 11 terrorist attack september 2001. He has been associated with a number of political problems, such as nuclear opposition and also support for Amnesty International, and also supporting the last two Democratic governmental prospects John Kerry and Barack Obama.
He has sold more than 65 million cds in the United States as well as 200 million around the world, and has gotten lots of awards: twenty Prices Grammy, two Golden Globe awards and one Academy Award. Springsteen in 2004 was rated by Rolling Stone magazine as the 23 biggest musician of all time on the magazine's checklist of the 100 biggest musicians.
Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Bruce.
"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention"
"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves"
"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company"
"Talk about a dream, try to make it real"
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it"
"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 doesn't"
"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition"
"When it comes to luck, you make your own"
"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s"
"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet"
"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work"
"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights"
"I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter"
"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"
"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed"
"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with"
"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, and I always also believed that it released the audience"
"In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it"
"In America everything's about who's number one today"
"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"
"I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost"
"It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people"
"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 insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly"
"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"
"Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous"
"The release date is just one day, but the record is forever"
"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings"
"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them"
"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 your children"
"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"
"In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it"
"Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music"
"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune"
"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"
"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life"
"But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got"
