Bruce Springsteen quote: "I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference."

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if...
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I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly ...
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When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot...
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I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s...
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A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
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The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
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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 ...
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When it comes to luck, you make your own.
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The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provi...
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A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after i...
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Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards t...
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is go...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
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It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it m...
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In America everything's about who's number one today.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys co...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then...
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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and oft...
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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a cha...
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Li...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the trai...
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When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what o...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on o...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bar...
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If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple....
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Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

There's a lot of music we have that cuts right to the heart of what's going on there.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You can't start a fire, worryin about your little world fallin apart, this gun's for hire even if we...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Dude, stop. You're justifying the stereotype.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I saw things I've never seen in an American city. The criminal ineptitude makes you furious. This is...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You're singing in the voice of somebody who lived 100 years ago, some of them three, four hundred ye...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us.
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Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capita...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, fi...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get of...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your ch...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

[It was a show that could have the audience singing along to a joyful] Blinded by the Light ... The ...
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Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
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It's kind of an iffy proposition,
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All I do know is as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier . . . much heavier....
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When Springsteen meets a future girlfriend on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, he delivers this electri...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds...
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We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.
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An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of to...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, y...
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No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in t...
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When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very stra...
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It's just me Lord, pray I'm able
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Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.
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She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.
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Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,
And a king aint satisfied till he rules every...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

There were ghosts of the eyes of all the boys you sent away, ... They haunt this dusty beach road in...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day....
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. . . . Success make...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves,...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

This is a song tax, ... for not being (in Madison) for so long.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I wanted the whole thing.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

It was just playing music. I didn't have any intention for it. I knew that I enjoyed making this kin...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I have no rules left. I don't have to get on the radio. It's wide open for me. The singer-songwriter...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I saw sights I never thought I'd see in an American city. The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong, they're still there, he's all gone.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

People deserve. . . the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

But they can't touch me now, and you can't touch me now, they ain't gonna do to me, what I watched t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The co...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was 25 years old, with no place to go and nothing to do ? that helped, ... We worked, and worked, ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

We remain a land of great promise, but we must move on, ... humility in exercising our power around ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everythin...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never las...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 't...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic,

I saw his solo tour twice in North Carolina, and it was fantastic both nights. There are some incred...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm in search of how to take the stuff I've written and make sure the audience hears it fresh again....
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic gov...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and th...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's whe...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of inn...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic sy...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was aske...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you,...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 ye...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering fi...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becom...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live i...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very i...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot o...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage your...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recor...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays o...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

In America everything's about who's number one today.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble b...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working....
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It was...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell b...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had t...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. An...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behin...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I think politics come out of psychology.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw my...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being abl...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come f...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings th...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worr...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN

My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN

I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN

My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul...
BRUCE COCKBURN

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
BRUCE BERESFORD

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin...
TAMMY BRUCE

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off...
TAMMY BRUCE

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be...
TAMMY BRUCE

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur...
TAMMY BRUCE

Republicans have never been good at public relations.
TAMMY BRUCE

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then ...
TAMMY BRUCE

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the med...
TAMMY BRUCE

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with...
TAMMY BRUCE

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
TAMMY BRUCE

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
TAMMY BRUCE

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ...
TAMMY BRUCE

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
TAMMY BRUCE

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything ...
TAMMY BRUCE

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I...
TAMMY BRUCE

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th...
TAMMY BRUCE

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