Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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

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.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

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.

cause down the shore everything's all right

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

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.

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

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

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

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

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.

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

You can't start a fire without a spark

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.

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.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

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.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

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

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

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.

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

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

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

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

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

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

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

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

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

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

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.