Top 250 Bruce Springsteen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can’t start a fire without a spark.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Music Quotes, Short Quotes, Quotes About Songs, Quotes About Fire

2. “Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Real Quotes, Quotes About Night

3. “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Identity Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

4. “We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Music Quotes, Journey Quotes, Desire Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

5. “Everybody’s got a hungry heart.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Heart

6. “Walk tall, or baby don’t walk at all.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Respect Quotes

7. “Someday girl, I don’t know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we’ll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.”

— Bruce Springsteen

8. “Now young faces grow sad and old, and hearts of fire grow cold, we swore blood brothers against the wind, I’m ready to grow young again.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Fire

9. “Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Music Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Sadness Quotes

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

— Bruce Springsteen

11. “The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Country Quotes

12. “I’m ready to grow young again.”

— Bruce Springsteen

13. “Two hearts are better than one.”

— Bruce Springsteen

14. “My heart’s dark, but it’s rising. I’m pulling all the faith I can see.”

— Bruce Springsteen

15. “I’m just tired and bored with myself.”

— Bruce Springsteen

16. “Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Sadness Quotes, Sky Quotes

17. “You can’t start a fire Worrying ’bout your little world falling apart This gun’s for hire Even if we’re just dancing in the dark.”

— Bruce Springsteen

18. “You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Rain Quotes, Summer Quotes

19. “Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Quotes About Night

20. “You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above.”

— Bruce Springsteen

21. “In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Betrayal Quotes

22. “Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.”

— Bruce Springsteen

23. “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”

— Bruce Springsteen

24. “Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Country Quotes

25. “I guess there’s just a meanness in this world.”

— Bruce Springsteen

26. “An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.”

— Bruce Springsteen

27. “Baby, in a world without pity, do you think what I’m asking too much? I just want to feel you in my arms, share a little of that human touch.”

— Bruce Springsteen

28. “It’s hard to be a saint in the city.”

— Bruce Springsteen

29. “Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.”

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

31. “Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City.”

— Bruce Springsteen

32. “The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.”

— Bruce Springsteen

33. “Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

34. “Is there anybody alive out there?”

— Bruce Springsteen

35. “To say I’ll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.”

— Bruce Springsteen

36. “Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you’ve got to pay.”

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

38. “So let’s take the good times as they go and I’ll meet you further on up the road...”

— Bruce Springsteen

39. “I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.”

— Bruce Springsteen

40. “My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city’s in ruins, my city’s in ruins.”

— Bruce Springsteen

41. “Meet me in a land of hopes and dreams.”

— Bruce Springsteen

42. “Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.”

— Bruce Springsteen

43. “In America everything’s about who’s number one today.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Quotes About Numbers

44. “Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.”

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

46. “We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

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

— Bruce Springsteen

48. “You aint a beauty but hey you’re all right.”

— Bruce Springsteen

49. “She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.”

— Bruce Springsteen

50. “If you’re an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.”

— Bruce Springsteen