I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to. — Bruce Springsteen Father Copy Share Image
All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“...The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above. — Bruce Springsteen Education Copy Share Image
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse? — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our… — Bruce Springsteen American government Copy Share Image
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying,… — Bruce Springsteen Connection Copy Share Image
“Sherrif when the man pulls that switch, Sir And snaps my poor head back, You make sure my pretty baby Is sittin'… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up. — Bruce Springsteen Day Copy Share Image
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little… — Bruce Springsteen Audience Copy Share Image
I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm… — Bruce Springsteen Audience Copy Share Image
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion… — Bruce Springsteen Basics Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I… — 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… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have been very familiar… — Bruce Springsteen Anxiety Copy Share Image
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have. — Bruce Springsteen Asking for forgiveness Copy Share Image
So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road. — Bruce Springsteen Good times Copy Share Image
Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire? — Bruce Springsteen Breaths Copy Share Image
A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of. — Bruce Springsteen Compassion Copy Share Image
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate. — Bruce Springsteen America Copy Share Image
Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on. — Bruce Springsteen Constitution Copy Share Image
They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man. — Bruce Springsteen Foreign lands Copy Share Image
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. — Bruce Springsteen People Copy Share Image
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company. — Bruce Springsteen Business Copy Share Image
Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside. — Bruce Springsteen Checking out Copy Share Image
It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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