A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. Bruce Springsteen More Quotes by Bruce Springsteen More Quotes From Bruce Springsteen The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence. Bruce Springsteen type different school Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. Bruce Springsteen creativity two believe What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences. Bruce Springsteen unique artist people The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. Bruce Springsteen rock-n-roll rocks band Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk. Bruce Springsteen wells guitar The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power. Bruce Springsteen taken responsibility country You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car. Bruce Springsteen thrill car stupid The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be. Bruce Springsteen poet writing 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. Bruce Springsteen innocence vantage-point loss The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind. Bruce Springsteen light train mind You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. Bruce Springsteen collapse folks united-states Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. Bruce Springsteen care artist people It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will Bruce Springsteen fairytale magic believe Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. Bruce Springsteen rocks dying race A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking. Bruce Springsteen voice writing song You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. Bruce Springsteen connections eye silly Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music. Bruce Springsteen voice bridges people 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 to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard. Bruce Springsteen trying way school I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing. Bruce Springsteen guitar player writing 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 in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. Bruce Springsteen rocks cities player
