Top 445 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Springsteen - Page 3

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn't do it, and they basically said, 'Well hey, look, it's going to go in the trash can.' That's the record business, you know.

When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do.

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.

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

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.

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

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

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

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

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

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

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.

Two hearts are better than one.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

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

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

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

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

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

I'm ready to grow young again

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.

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

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

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

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

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

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You can't start a fire without a spark

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.

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

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

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

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

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.

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

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

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.