01c. 1969 ADSome things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them.It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
02c. 1969 ADAs you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the ‘bathroom’ law. HB2 — known officially as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act — dictates which bathrooms transgender people are permitted to use. Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace.No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden. To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments.Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters. As a result, and with deepest apologies to our dedicated fans in Greensboro, we have canceled our show scheduled for Sunday, April 10th. Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
03c. 1969 ADNow 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 wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
05c. 1969 ADAdult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
06c. 1969 ADThe star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
07c. 1969 ADUntil 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1969 ADI think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
09c. 1969 ADThis music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
10c. 1969 ADThere is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
11c. 1969 ADFor me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
12c. 1969 ADGetting 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1969 ADMy image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
15c. 1969 ADThere is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
16c. 1969 ADBlind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
17c. 1969 ADI'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 / quote ↗
18c. 1969 ADI do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
19c. 1969 ADIt's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
20c. 1969 ADI have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
21c. 1969 ADYour success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
22c. 1969 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1969 ADMy dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
24c. 1969 ADI think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.Bruce Springsteen / quote ↗
