I guess there's just a meanness in this world Bruce Springsteen More Quotes by Bruce Springsteen More Quotes From Bruce Springsteen In America everything's about who's number one today. Bruce Springsteen numbers today america You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets. Bruce Springsteen pain summer rain I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band. Bruce Springsteen rock-and-roll rocks play Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away. Bruce Springsteen sitting waiting philosophy I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car. Bruce Springsteen car keys philosophy I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. Bruce Springsteen home writing song When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened. Bruce Springsteen fats hunger happened I was real good at music and real bad at everything else. Bruce Springsteen real I'm just tired and bored with myself. Bruce Springsteen tired bored reality I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat. Bruce Springsteen men cards reality On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience. Bruce Springsteen higher-ground given night The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know. Bruce Springsteen rocks guy hate That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime. Bruce Springsteen dimes men ideas Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. Bruce Springsteen encyclopedia selling right-now A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song. Bruce Springsteen singers song After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself. Bruce Springsteen greatest-fear running people You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate. Bruce Springsteen able may song You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. Bruce Springsteen audience trying The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind. Bruce Springsteen mother song mean I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips. Bruce Springsteen kissing cutting evil
