Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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Bruce Springsteen

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1949

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

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

Bruce Springsteen

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Bruce Springsteen

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Bruce Springsteen

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Bruce Springsteen

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

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Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Bruce Springsteen

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Bruce Springsteen

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

Bruce Springsteen

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Bruce Springsteen

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

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The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

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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.

Bruce Springsteen

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Bruce Springsteen

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