Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

American singer-songwriter

Lived from: 1949 -

Category: Music | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 23 september 1949

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  • It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
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  • It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
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  • Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...
    Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of
    Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by,
    Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Glory Days
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  • Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out,
    Packing up our bags, maybe heading south.
    I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
    Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around,
    This is your hometown.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) My Hometown
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  • Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
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  • Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
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  • My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
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  • My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
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  • No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
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  • Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
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  • Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
    Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
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  • People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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  • Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
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  • Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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  • Poor man wanna be rich,
    rich man wanna be king
    And a king ain't satisfied
    till he rules everything.
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) Badlands
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  • Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
    Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the Backstreets.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
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  • Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
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  • She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
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  • So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road...
    The Rising (2002) Further On (Up the Road)
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  • So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
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