--- title: "6 Enormous Quotes By Bruce Springsteen" description: "6 Enormous quotes by Bruce Springsteen. Plus more from Bruce Springsteen and more Enormous sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/bruce-springsteen-546_catholic_because-we-lived-in-the-presence-of-the_1258869.jpg" --- > [Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/because-we-lived-in-the-presence-of-the-church-and-the-convent-and/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/bruce-springsteen-546_catholic_because-we-lived-in-the-presence-of-the_1258869.jpg) > [I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/i-didn-t-have-a-blueprint-from-my-childhood-that-i-could-call-on/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b7/bruce-springsteen-546_achieve_i-didn-t-have-a-blueprint-from-my-childh_1395569.jpg) > [Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/work-creates-an-enormous-sense-of-self-and-i-saw-that-in-my-mother/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/227/bruce-springsteen-546_best_work-creates-an-enormous-sense-of-self-a_2095269.jpg) > [Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/adult-life-is-dealing-with-an-enormous-amount-of-questions-that-don-t/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c32/bruce-springsteen-546_adult-life_adult-life-is-dealing-with-an-enormous-a_2708000.jpg) > [If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/if-you-don-t-connect-yourself-to-your-family-and-to-the-world-in-some/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/bruce-springsteen-546_disappear_if-you-don-t-connect-yourself-to-your-fa_2849071.jpg) > [Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/adult-life-is-dealing-with-an-enormous-amount-of-questions-that-don-t-2/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/bruce-springsteen-546_adult_adult-life-is-dealing-with-an-enormous-a_2892199.jpg) ## Other authors on Enormous ## More by Bruce Springsteen > [I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/i-understand-that-it-s-the-music-that-keeps-me-alive-that-s-my/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/when-i-die-throw-my-body-in-the-back-and-drive-me-to-the-junk-yard-in/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/when-you-start-talking-about-elections-being-rigged-you-re-pushing/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/i-got-mary-pregnant-and-man-that-s-all-she-wrote-and-for-my-19th/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [ I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music \[who wasn't influenced by something\]. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/i-don-t-know-if-i-know-anyone-with-the-exception-of-the-early/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/people-see-you-onstage-and-yeah-i-d-want-to-be-that-guy-i-want-to-be/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/you-know-my-music-utilizes-things-from-the-past-because-that-s-what/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/from-the-town-of-lincoln-nebraska-with-a-sawed-off-410-on-my-lap/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [I want a thousand guitars . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/i-want-a-thousand-guitars/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [In America everything's about who's number one today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/in-america-everything-s-about-who-s-number-one-today/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/a-pop-song-is-a-condensed-version-of-a-life-in-three-minutes-whereas/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/i-walked-a-thousand-miles-just-to-slip-this-skin/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/the-moment-you-begin-to-depend-on-audience-reaction-you-re-doing-the/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/the-name-boss-started-with-people-that-worked-for-me-it-was-not-meant/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) > [The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-springsteen/the-country-we-carry-in-our-hearts-is-waiting/) [Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-springsteen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enormous/bruce-springsteen/#itemlist", "name": "6 Enormous Quotes By Bruce Springsteen", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. 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