Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

You 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.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

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

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

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Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

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.

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

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

I'm ready to grow young again

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

This 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.

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.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?