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I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...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'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...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen
Writing, Successful, Age

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
Writing, Player, Guitar
"Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Bruce Springsteen
Writing, Poet
Bruce Springsteen (2016). “Born to Run”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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
Song, Writing, Voice
Source: www.pbs.org

I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.

Bruce Springsteen
Jobs, Writing, Emotional

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.

Bruce Springsteen
Writing, Years, Ideas
"A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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.

Bruce Springsteen
Birthday, Writing, Age

The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.

Bruce Springsteen
Book, Writing, Two
"Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

Bruce Springsteen
Writing, Two, Issues

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

Bruce Springsteen
Writing, Play, Records
"Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbgo.org. September 15, 2017.

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Bruce Springsteen
Believe, Writing, People

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

Bruce Springsteen
Song, Writing, People

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Bruce Springsteen
Song, Home, Writing

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

Bruce Springsteen
Writing, Parent, Saws
Source: www.pbs.org

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

Bruce Springsteen
Book, Writing, Voice
"Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbgo.org. September 15, 2017.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

Bruce Springsteen
Song, Writing, Thinking
Source: www.pbs.org

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

Bruce Springsteen
Song, Writing, Done

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