Explore Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

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

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

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

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact_x000D_But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell_x000D_And I feel like I'm comin' home.

It's a town full of losers_x000D_And I'm pulling out of here to win.

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

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.

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.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.