Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 3

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.