Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.


Bruce Springsteen

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It is a lie.
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I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell b...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. An...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behin...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I think politics come out of psychology.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw my...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being abl...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come f...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings th...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worr...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN
My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN
I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN
My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul...
BRUCE COCKBURN
There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
BRUCE BERESFORD
Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin...
TAMMY BRUCE
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off...
TAMMY BRUCE
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be...
TAMMY BRUCE
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur...
TAMMY BRUCE
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
TAMMY BRUCE
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then ...
TAMMY BRUCE
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the med...
TAMMY BRUCE
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with...
TAMMY BRUCE
Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
TAMMY BRUCE
For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
TAMMY BRUCE
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ...
TAMMY BRUCE
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
TAMMY BRUCE
Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything ...
TAMMY BRUCE
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I...
TAMMY BRUCE
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th...
TAMMY BRUCE