Top 100 Quotes About Bruce Springsteen
#1. Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.
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#2. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
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#3. Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.
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#4. I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
Max Weinberg
#7. In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.
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#8. The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.
Mike Scully
#9. Little changes at first, maybe, but as the Bruce Springsteen song tells us, from small things, baby, big things one day come. They might be good changes, ones
Stephen King
#10. I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.
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#11. You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
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#12. The beat of her heart, the slow burning away ... of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
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#14. I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
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#16. The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
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#17. 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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#18. Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.
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#20. When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.
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#21. Bruce Springsteen settled down. He used to run around with lots of women and now all he wants to do is hang out with Patty Scialfa and the kids.
Patty's from Jersey. You don't mess around on Jersey girls. They're too tough. I'm sorry Bubbles, but being from Pennsylvania, you're no match.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#22. For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?
John Mellencamp
#23. A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.
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#25. I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
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#26. Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
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#27. I decided the world was filled with plenty of good guitar players, many of them my match or better, but how many good songwriters were there?
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#28. Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.
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#29. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Tom Morello
#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.
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#33. I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
Clive Davis
#35. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
Colin Mochrie
#37. We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.
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#38. Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!
Henry Rollins
#39. Springsteen is the king, don't you think? I was like, hell yeah, that guy can sing.
Lana Del Rey
#40. Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.
Shane Black
#41. I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
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#42. I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.
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#43. 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.
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#44. The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
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#46. I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
Flula Borg
#47. Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
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#48. My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
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#50. 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.
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#52. 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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#54. I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
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#55. My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.
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#56. So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road ...
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#57. You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.
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#59. 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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#60. Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
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#61. At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
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#62. In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn.
Nick Hornby
#63. 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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#64. Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?
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#65. You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
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#66. 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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#68. I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
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#69. I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that
Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that
Rick Ross
#70. 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
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#71. I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. Cole
#72. When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#77. Sherrif when the man pulls that switch, Sir
And snaps my poor head back,
You make sure my pretty baby
Is sittin' right there on my lap.
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#78. Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.
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#79. Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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#80. I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.
Demi Lovato
#81. 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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#82. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
Rita Ora
#83. I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
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#87. There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. Steve and I caught Neil Young promoting his first solo album, his signature black Gibson plugged into a tiny Fender amp, blowing out the walls of the Bitter End.
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#91. No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving.
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#93. I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.
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#94. I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
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#95. Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.
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#98. I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.
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#99. Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.
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#100. Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of ... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.
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