Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

“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.”

“Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”

“The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.”

“The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”

“Talk about a dream,try to make it real”

“I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to...”

“As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.”

“As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.”

“Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when you get together with your pals in front of your ...”

“Dont take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Dont worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you alive and alert! Believe you are the...”

“Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a bea...”

“The endorphin high of birth will fade, but its trace remains with you forever, its fingerprints indelible proof of love's presence and daily grandeur. You have offered up your prayer. You have vowe...”

“There is no evidence of the soul except in tis sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything in t...”

“The blues dont jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a depression like I hadnt experienced since that dusty night in Texas thirty years earlier. It lasted ...”

“Antidepression medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug Id been taking seemed to have stopped working. This is not unusual. The drugs interact with your ...”

“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equa...”

“First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. Its one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random tra...”

“All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.”

“I know I'm good but I'm also a poser. That's artistic balance! In the second half of the century, "authenticity" would be what you made of it, a hall of mirrors. Put on the work shirt, young man. N...”

“You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The amb...”