Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

“One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and its incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. Theres so many types of...”

“Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving...”

“I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.”

“Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.”

“(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.”

“Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry which is happening as I write is one of them.It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in ...”

“As you, my fans, know Im scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the bathroom law. HB2 ...”

“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.”

“The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.”

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

“Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.”

“This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.”

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

“There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”

“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.”

“There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”

“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”