Folk Tradition Quotes 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,…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— 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.

— 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.

— 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].

— Bruce Springsteen

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

— 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…

— 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.

— Bruce Springsteen

I want a thousand guitars . . .

— Bruce Springsteen

In America everything's about who's number one today.

— 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…

— Bruce Springsteen

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

— Bruce Springsteen