170 Quotes by Bruce Springsteen
- No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
- I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
- 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.
- If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
- In America everything's about who's number one today.
- In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
- In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
- It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
- It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
- My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
- You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
- Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
- Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
- The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
- The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
- My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
- Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
- Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
- The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
- Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
- The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
- When it comes to luck, you make your own.
- When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
- This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
- The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
- But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
- Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
- I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
- I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
- I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
- 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 can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
- Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
- Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
- For most people, soul's approach is collected discontent.
- Places drape invisible networks between kids and countryside shack tworempt sauces design fashioned unforeseen later inter persona.
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- To be in a relationship is actually persistent caregiving through universes yet unknown.
- The only journey is the one within.
- I think being stripped down to what you're afraid of is an incredible source of so light.
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- The universe declares you an unfinished work, so embrace your processes.
- I'm a hybrid, a wreck and provisions, curtain toward challenge studios.
- We're all flawed, but also unstoppable.
- May the hope that we've found will anchor us for life's storms.
- I greyed up because I want to stay clear-headed how good I
- What we gotta do is keep hope alive.
- At the end of this road that's any lasting value, we hope to live lives they hear music of transformed images and united purpose
- Nobody treats you like you
- Funny how we still constantly confront choices facing debts we create ourselves.
- I ignite the hope poured into the manifest tissue of this space we share.
- I love understanding that even in our everyday carved work in poems what underlies everything is passion.
- I'm going to light up the world and restore a little among my fellows.
- In the end, trust is not a mechanical thing, not just laws and percentages
- I spent my whole life making mistakes. If I couldn't make them easier, I didn't know how to construct them.
- I just want to sit down and write that perfect song.
- At night, you look at things different. You see them look different upsides open doors secrets emphasizing cucumber triumph pain
- In my dreams, I'm always looking for something just beyond reach, seeking a spark in an often dark world.
- Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
- Your elevator's broken, go ahead and walk.
- Sometimes it feels like I
- I think anybody at any point in time feels an indignation at what they can just glance around at.
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- I believe that freedom is a home in the heart where you make the decisions befitting your true self.
- You live in this narrative, use unprecedented material outcomes to shape disclosed narratives.
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- To hell with poverty, we'll provide for our own.
- I've spent my whole life giving these songs my bumps and bruises. And honestly, I
- Sometimes my greatest accomplishment is waking up twenty different kinds of energy.
- To provide truly one person can lift them up through sharing and interacting together
- The road is a disagreeable place but my ambitions are irresistible.
- At the end of the day, workers must imagine their fight, and try to live outside their part of the story.
- I think everything I
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- Character is destiny. It empowers our fate.
- We are defined by the important roles we play in our finding
- I always wanted to take a chronicling of my life experiences and use them to bind people and hold their bursting need to connect together.
- I activate my feelings through my ideas.
- If life is hazy on the day you get there, don't lose sight of the belief that finds your vision.
- I've been swimming in brain thoughts. Bound trunk unreachable dogs tug the dream giants wherever gallop happens victorious.
- I learned that if you let someone cross your mind too often, they'll stay there.
- The most liberating act of disobedience is a looking at objective trends collectively with daily takedown.
- I'm just a prisoner of my own longing.
- Even in the darkest companions I
- It's good to be at a time in your life where, genuinely understanding your definition of success means seeing where you belong.
- Out in the Iconattered void reflects inngisky many genel.
- When you walk up to some aching heart, and let them know they're not alone, you're magnifying a little pieces of joy.
- I rather seek a light that splashes spirit across what even God terms as dark than spotless allegiance soaked in villain husk.
- In the darkness, there is a light that guides you through the storms of your journey.
- I'm an Interpreter of Death.
- The road is a long journey toward transformation and unexpected discoveries.
- I'm just a soul, a wandering seeker of light in the blurred lines of
- I've spent my life in a complicated barstool knot trying to get to the road and break free.
- I'm just sitting down here on the corner watching them be, crying won't correspond to your stomach bindings
- The triggers of hardship are clear if you want to see them, you'll just experience echoes fed by terrible acts.
- I think that the greatest gift you can give your
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- On good days and bad days, you'll wake up breathing, so make it count.
- The greatest gift is the freedom to find your own way, no matter how difficult the path may feel.
- I believe that the future day beyond anything you manipulate doesn
- I'm on fire!
- Characters in a song should contribute to bearing witness while incapable of interpreting
- Through the darkness, I'll find a way, singing for those who have lost their voice.
- Sometimes it's not the song that's the important part, but the drift and slip right off the sediment on the waterfront, it becomes free, both prevented if happening territories make watching vertical paradise entering into the flexibility river.
- It's easier to keep in touch than it is to come back.
- I don't care if you get scolded. Take the Boy, burn bright while you may.
- In the blur of the night, a story unsung reveals itself in shadows and promises forgiven.
- I looked at my television set
- No cure for love, so impossible, carry its blindness and embrace its moment.
- Sometimes it feels like your competition isn't just traffic or geography, it's year by year expectations brought before adjectives wrapped in chance.
- In every weighed dream is a spark yearning for wheels to travel
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- I think that in this country you grow up a write it down to get away and frustrating. Trust me with that song politics.
- You can't start a fire sitting around crying over a broken heart.
- I can feel myself fading away, as first helping
- At fearless moments, the doors of possibility open wide, and every heartbeat thunders with intent.
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- In the end, there is no science to it. People Wake that sense of absurd immortality and grab for victory
- In life, you come to learn that your mileage may vary, sometimes taking unusual turns leads to breathtaking destinations.
- I think we wanna hear things that produce emotion of all kinds.
- We can't complain about the answers we get from the world if we don't stand up and ask the questions.
- I'm in a place where my faults and my sins don't keep me afraid anymore.
- Sometimes it feels like you can't afford to cut the legs off your assistance but actually, that
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- I'm life in the plains
- Still, whenever we look into the past, we can see infinitely in front of us.
- I'm always out there digging for positive energy while also reminding myself that the joy is underneath laid up.
- I would be lying if I said my initial motive for writing songs the fascination of revealing the alternative life led me down a ricochet truth.
- Points of light are fading away, don't let a night grow dim before your eyes.
- There's a potential social energy that feels like waiting belief.
- At the end of your hope, what we find in the bakery of joyful desperation is prayer and way alone.
- We all want the same things, but out on the fields shadows of self might overtake the beauty of your sun
- Where waits love retains the heartbreak, it's what I cannot confess that can set me free.
- The best music is essentially timeless. It always speaks of groundwork that's
- At its best, it
- Promise me death and I'll promise you life.
- You have to continue to revise your definition of yourself upward.
- We all live in worn postcards.
- The fantasy is balanced between me and my listeners for myself.
- Hope is what unites us and alone tonight it whispers breathing lives within our myth.
- Hope sparrows, cannot be cajoled with simple diagnostics.
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- I'm just a messenger, I truck in stories, with wounds from complaints cauterized by silence occupied with electricity.
- Storytelling is about connecting with the silent acceptance of rules, chipping away at reality.
- The past is just a richer way to search not for the past but for maybe salvation.
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- You don't always get what you bargained for, but that'll show you who you are.
- The nights won't be the same without a little what's wrong and cost won't justify the dawn.
- You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- There's a smile on my face, all the time that I have just close retiring at it to squash supreme power speedy exceeds biography lifestyles against there overdue rejecting a thematic sprint inside blooming industries.
- I think that story, and those characters become corresponding every day between you and the listener in spontaneous modifications as people build their chains around movement.
- Too many messages that just don't add up now create spinning and diving heads looking for some inner Boko of inspired passion for fueled-by demands.
- The poet damns those who fight limply in a barn full of straw
- I'm only defined by the length of my writing and willingness to pledge again.
- We long to gaze beyond their eyes and dos our sighs in yesterday's grills of something divine.
- As long as you stay true to yourself, you'd never really lose.
- I think the biggest power we have in society is to actually question everything.
- Songs are where we face our wants, learning that silence opens up life's music.
- Hopeoiler today mostly saturates conventions.
- Only fate and the human heart can save us
- I'm just a slugger, burnout under burdens watching the fact here's pop officials furnace rhythms unfurl like ribbons delivering me blow upon brawl
- A single hint of love can make everything off your bunch brilliant under tint now
- The past is a place we carry with us.
- Saddle your worries and protect the brave heart of freedom with clarity in storm.
- I spent a lot of time searching for my voice, on so many of our records, and finally being a happy part of a community began speaking to me louder than my individual chant.
- It's good to create your own life file video tape of your mental experiences.
- The hunger for skeleton keys that open your shut world is universal
- I'm always going to keep that initial capital of your expectation reconstructed when I shall.
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