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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  • Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
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  • Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
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  • Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
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  • That you know flag flying over the courthouse
    Means certain things are set in stone
    Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
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  • The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
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  • The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
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  • The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
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  • The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
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  • 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 my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
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  • The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
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  • The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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  • The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
    Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
    Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
    Hustling for the record machine.
    The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
    That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
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  • The street's on fire in a real death waltz
    Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
    Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
    They just stand back and let it all be
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
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  • The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
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  • There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
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  • There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
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  • This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
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  • Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
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  • We made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender.
    No Surrender (1984)
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  • We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie;
    Home's a long, long way from us.
    I feel a dirty wind blowing;
    Devils and dust.
    Devils & Dust (2005) Devils & Dust
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