Quotes from Bruce Springsteen


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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.


I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.


When it comes to luck, you make your own.


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


If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.


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.


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


I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.


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.


Talk about a dream, try to make it real.


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


I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.


I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.


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


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


When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.


Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.


All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.


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.