Bruce Springsteen Quotes about Past

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You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

Bruce Springsteen

Past, Limits, Knows

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

Bruce Springsteen

Past, Reality, Sin

Song: Adam Raised a Cain, Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, 1978

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Past, Daily Experience

Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

Bruce Springsteen

Moving, Past, Fabulous

"Meet the new boss". Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Bruce Springsteen

Song, Fun, Past

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Bruce Springsteen

Couple, Past, People

"A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.