Bruce Springsteen Quotes

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

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 refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.

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

Talk about a dream, try to make it real

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do.So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.