Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 5

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.