Top 445 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Springsteen - Page 7

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

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.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as "Born To Run" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on.

You know hearts these days are cheap.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.

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.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

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.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

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

There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know.

Out of our way mister, you best keep.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.

To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

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

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

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

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

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.

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

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

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.

I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.

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.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

Is there anybody alive out there?

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

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

You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.