"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.












The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
More Bruce Springsteen quotes
"I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try ...
"Talk about a dream,try to make it real
"Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,But you and I know what this world can do.So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.And I'll ...
"There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
"The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a depression like I hadn’t experienced since that dust...
"I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
"First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our book...
"Antidepression medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug I’d been taking seemed to have stopped working. Th...
"Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when yo...
"I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leave...
"As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one th...
"As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.