Bruce Springsteen > Quotes

“Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.
And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“You can't start a fire
Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark”
― Bruce Springsteen

“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?”
― Bruce Springsteen, Songs : Bruce Springsteen

“We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“God have mercy on the man
who doubts what he's sure of.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“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.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“All I do know is as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier . . . much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting rises higher and higher.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“Talk about a dream,
try to make it real”
― Bruce Springsteen

“Will you walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.”
― BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

“I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind,Wait for me.
”
― Bruce Springsteen

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

“When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafé factory at the town’s eastern edge. I don’t like coffee but I like that smell. It’s comforting; it unites the town in a common sensory experience; it’s good industry, like the roaring rug mill that fills our ears, brings work and signals our town’s vitality. There is a place here—you can hear it, smell it—where people make lives, suffer pain, enjoy small pleasures, play baseball, die, make love, have kids, drink themselves drunk on spring nights and do their best to hold off the demons that seek to destroy us, our homes, our families, our town.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equals two. It keeps the world spinning. But artists, musicians, con men, poets, mystics and such are paid to turn that math on its head, to rub two sticks together and bring forth fire. Everybody performs this alchemy somewhere in their life, but it’s hard to hold on to and easy to forget. People don’t come to rock shows to learn something. They come to be reminded of something they already know and feel deep down in their gut. That's when the world is at its best, when we are at our best, when life feels fullest, one and one equals three. It’s the essential equation of love, art, rock ’n’ roll and rock ’n’ roll bands. It’s the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible, love will continue to be ecstatic, confounding, and true rock ’n’ roll will never die.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“I'm ready to grow young again”
― Bruce Springsteen

“the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...”
― Bruce Springsteen

“You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“They say "ya gotta stay hungry"...
Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!”
― Bruce Springsteen

“You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“We honor our parents by not accepting as the final equation the most troubling characteristics of our relationship. I decided between my father and me that the sum of our troubles would not be the summation of our lives together. In analysis, you work to turn the ghosts that haunt you into ancestors who accompany you. That takes hard work and a lot of love, but it's the way we lessen the burdens our children have to carry.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run