Bruce Springsteen Quotes

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

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.

Two hearts are better than one.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

For 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.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.

Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.