#our

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#good #looking #over #shoulder #you

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#band #bare #bones #could #couple

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#anything #ask #basically #because #down

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #creates #enormous #failings #father

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

#big #bridge #difficult #ease #kind

Your 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

#easier #life #living #make #makes

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#entire #entire life #got #i #i think

When it comes to luck, you make your own. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#luck #make #own #you #your

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#another #build #climb #life #mountain