Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 4

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

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

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

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.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.