Top 100 Bruce Springsteen Quotes
#1. Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.
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#2. I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.
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#3. The beat of her heart, the slow burning away ... of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
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#4. The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
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#6. I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
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#7. 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.
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#9. We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
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#11. So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road ...
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#13. And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
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#14. Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
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#15. Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?
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#16. I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
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#17. I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.
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#18. There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking place where something was before.
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#21. Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.
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#22. We struggled together and sometimes with one another. We took care of one another. In the end, we kept faith in each other.
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#23. That you know flag flying over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
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#24. I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.
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#25. Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.
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#26. The Super Bowl helped me sell a few new records and probably put a few extra fannies in the seats that tour. But what it was really about was this: I felt my band remained one of the mightiest in the land and I wanted you to know it. We
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#27. Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.
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#29. You write about what you love and you write about things you're trying to make sense of.
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#30. I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.
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#31. Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.
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#32. The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
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#34. I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint ...
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#35. We called ourselves Child, and we played the bars and nightclubs of the late-sixties Shore. We played original music with some covers, and the simple fact that we were so good was all that kept us working.
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#36. I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
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#37. Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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#38. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.
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#39. Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.
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#40. This was a man who didn't see it coming . . . he WAS it coming, and without him, white America, you would not look or act or think the way you do.
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#41. The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
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#42. Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
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#43. There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.
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#44. If people are sick and hurting and lost, I guess it falls on everybody to address those problems in some fashion. Because injustice, and the price of that injustice, falls on everyone's heads.
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#45. Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?
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#46. They say "ya gotta stay hungry" ...
Hey Baby ... I'm just about starvin' tonight!
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#47. I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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#48. Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
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#49. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
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#50. I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
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#53. The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
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#54. Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land.
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#55. Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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#57. Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar.
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#58. One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it's incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There's so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.
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#59. Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.
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#60. You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
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#61. She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
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#62. I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
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#63. When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."
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#64. To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.
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#65. Born down in a dead man's town; The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
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#66. Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.
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#67. I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
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#68. I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
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#70. If I lose and have nothing when this is over, you can still drop me with my guitar by parachute anywhere in America; I'll walk to the nearest roadhouse, find a pickup band and light up your night. Just because I can.
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#71. You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
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#72. Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
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#73. First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It's one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.
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#74. Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.
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#75. All you can do is show people ... You tell stories that are true and compelling.
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#76. I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
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#77. The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
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#79. All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.
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#80. Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
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#81. They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
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#82. That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
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#83. But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.
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#85. Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.
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#86. As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
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#87. There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
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#88. For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.
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#89. It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.
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#90. For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.
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#91. The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
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#92. I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.
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#93. The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
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#94. Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
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#95. Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
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#96. The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me ... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
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#97. It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
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#98. I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.
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#99. I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.
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#100. Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
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