Bruce Springsteen Quotes

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

You can't start a fire without a spark

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Adult 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.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Getting 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.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

Until 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.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.