Bruce Springsteen Quotes

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen

Sad, Friend, Stand

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Bruce Springsteen

Faith, Leaders, Blind

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Time, Long, Hard

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Process, Early

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Music, Live

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Acceptance, Tolerance

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
Bruce Springsteen

Education, Smart, School

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
Bruce Springsteen

Felt, Natural, Generally

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Bruce Springsteen

Fire, Between, Against

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Greatest, Blues

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Care, Job

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Best, Face

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
Bruce Springsteen

Tradition, Folk, Narrative

When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Bruce Springsteen

I think politics come out of psychology.
Bruce Springsteen

Politics, Psychology

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
Bruce Springsteen

Experience, Nice, Gay

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
Bruce Springsteen

Two, Guitar, Growing

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Character, Talent

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
Bruce Springsteen

Pretty, Getting, Few

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Music, Family

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Lost, Point

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Reality, Between

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Time, Writing

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Work, Art

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
Bruce Springsteen

Fun, Past, Songs

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Nationality: American

Born: September 23, 1949

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