Famous Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

“Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage.

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

If I write a really good song about it, it’s going to make a difference.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything; I just live with it.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records.

You can’t start a fire without a spark.

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

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally.

You build your box, and then you escape from it. That’s ongoing.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them that they can’t quite get off their back.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

I think politics come out of psychology.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.