Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 10

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.

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.

The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree.

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

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.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

Use it, Rosie, that's what it's there for.

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.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

But 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.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

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

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.