Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 13

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.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

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.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.