Bruce Springsteen Quotes
20 quotes from Bruce Springsteen — Rock musician known as 'The Boss.' Author of the memoir 'Born to Run.' Has sold 150M+ albums and is one of the most suc….
“You can't start a fire without a spark.”
“Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come. Well, don't waste your time waiting.”
“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.”
“We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”
“Everybody's got a hungry heart.”
“Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.”
“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”
“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”
“The past is never the past. It is always present.”
“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.”
“I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.”
“I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”
“People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. I want to be that guy myself very often. There's a big difference between what you see onstage and then my general daily existence.”
“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. Music, when it's really great, pries that shit back open and lets people back in, it lets light in, and air in, and energy in, and sends people home with that and sends me back to the hotel with it.”
“You are isolated, yet you desire to talk to somebody. You are very disempowered, so you seek impact, recognition that you are alive and that you exist. We hope to send people out of the building we play in with a slightly more enhanced sense of what their options might be, emotionally, maybe communally.”
“I felt I was an average guy with a slightly above-average gift... and country was about the truth emanating out of your sweat, out of your local bar, your corner store.”
“I searched out something that I needed to do. It's a job that's filled with ego and vanity and narcissism, and you need all those things to do it well. But you can't let those things completely swamp you, either.”
“You can waste it, you can half-ass your way through it, or you can absorb every minute of what you're experiencing and come out on the other end an individual of expanded vision, of intellectual vigor, of spiritual character and grace.”
