Bruce Springsteen Quotes - Page 6

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.