Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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...

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 't...

I know I'm good but I'm also a poser. That's artistic balance! In the second half of the century, "a...

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,But you and I know what this world can do.So let's m...

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

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 t...

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

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of...

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

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

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry yo...

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into o...

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was ...

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life...

The endorphin high of birth will fade, but its trace remains with you forever, its fingerprints inde...

The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a de...

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

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never las...

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system...

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type ...

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know ...

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

Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin...

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

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

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morn...

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s ...

Antidepression medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug ...

The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings th...

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their ins...

Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck,...

Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brillia...

All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. W...

I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the...

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

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mys...

Talk about a dream,try to make it real

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in way...

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

As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also kn...

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, y...

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a cha...

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which...

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

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There...

There is no evidence of the soul except in tis sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the plac...

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