Bruce Springsteen

“So I just said, when are you going to sing it? Right? And, you know, it was very funny, but it was very clear, and they did. They went back in, and they remixed the whole album, which was the right thing to do.”

“Dre and Bruce have a lot in common... They are completely uncompromising, ok? Completely uncompromising. They will not compromise. You have to convince them to move to the left or right. They are, they know completely what they do, and they don't compromise. I…”

“Tom Petty never brought an average song into the studio. He was a great self-editor. He would come in, that song would be complete and done. Bruce is like that as well.”

“I think the lesson there for you and I is when you pour a lot of love and dedication and obsess over details and take the time to get it right in the product or service you're building. Even if the customer or the person that's using your products or service c…”

“He had that fire as a 15 year old boy when he decides he wants to be a musician. He still has it as an almost 80 year old man.”

“And he said that his greatest achievement was not going into the rock and roll hall of fame, was not selling a hundred and fifty million records, was not, you know, being unbelievably famous and wealthy and rich. He said his greatest achievement was not passin…”

“I never saw the inside of a restaurant until I was well into my twenties.”

“Very shortly after that, his bandmates decide to vote him out of the band. They said his guitar was too cheap and it wouldn't stay in tune.”

“That night, I went home, pulled out a Rolling Stones album, put it on, and taught myself the guitar solo from the song It's All Over Now. It took me all night, but by midnight, I had a reasonable copy of it down.”

“Most of the people in rock and roll are obviously doing a lot of drugs and alcohol. He doesn't do anything.”

“We would draw up to 3000 people at our concerts with no album to our name.”

“Only the luckiest bands don't grow apart. Everyone moves differently and no two musicians commitment is exactly the same.”

“With steel mill, we had made as much as 3000 dollars a night with no recording contract. And when the money was split after expenses, band members went home with hundreds of dollars in their pockets.”

“He says we would split everything fifty-fifty. The problem is that all expenses would end up coming out of my half.”

“But if you want to burn bright, hard, and long, you will need to depend upon more than your initial instincts. You will need to develop some craft and a creative intelligence that will lead you farther when things get dicey. That's what will help you make cruc…”

“The failure of so many of Rock's artists to outlive their expiration date of a few years Make more than a few great albums, and avoid water treading, or worse, I felt was due to the misfit nature of those drawn to the profession. I think this is also true for …”

“Now, if you don't have the raw talent, you can't will yourself there, but if you have the talent, then will ambition and the determination to expose yourself to new thoughts, counter arguments, new influences will strengthen and fortify your work, driving you …”

“Still, I wrestled with Born to Run for a few more months, rejecting it, refusing to release it, and finally throwing it into a hotel swimming pool in front of a panicked Jimmy Iovine.”

“What makes something great may also be one of its weaknesses, just like in people.”

“All I do know is that as we age, the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier, much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting rises higher and higher.”

“In all psychological wars, it is never over. There's just this day, this time, and a hesitant belief in your own ability to change. It is not an arena where the unsure should go looking for absolutes and there are no permanent victories.”

“Patty and I fought a lot, which was a good thing. I never argued much in most of my other relationships, and it had proved detrimental. Too many issues simmering unresolved beneath the surface always proved poisonous.”

“Those whose love we wanted, but could not get, we emulate. It is dangerous. It stakes our claim upon that which was rightfully ours, but denied.”

“Bruce hadn't written the lyrics, he only wrote the chorus”