Best 365 quotes of Bruce Springsteen on MyQuotes

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

cause down the shore everything's all right

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive