Explore Quotes by 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.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart _x000D__x000D_Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

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.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

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

cause down the shore everything's all right

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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

You'll 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.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.