A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“When life comes knockin', it's the heartbroken doo-wop singer who understands regret and the price of loving, the hard-living soul man who… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“in America we’re not supposed to leave anybody behind. In a country this rich, it isn’t right. A dignified decent living is… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image