Top 250 Bruce Springsteen Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.”

— Bruce Springsteen

52. “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

53. “The older you get, the more it means.”

— Bruce Springsteen

54. “We’re gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it’s gonna be alright.”

— Bruce Springsteen

55. “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Or is it something worse?”

— Bruce Springsteen

56. “Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap. We got to get out while we’re young.”

— Bruce Springsteen

57. “Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that’s me and I want you only.”

— Bruce Springsteen

58. “Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.”

— Bruce Springsteen

59. “With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.”

— Bruce Springsteen

60. “You’ve always got to remember, rock and roll’s never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never – never – a bout surrender.”

— Bruce Springsteen

61. “God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.”

— Bruce Springsteen

62. “I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.”

— Bruce Springsteen

63. “Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.”

— Bruce Springsteen

64. “A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.”

— Bruce Springsteen

65. “You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.”

— Bruce Springsteen

66. “My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I’ve always felt like I’m seeking his revenge.”

— Bruce Springsteen

67. “You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn’t understand before. But there’s never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.”

— Bruce Springsteen

68. “The highway is alive tonight But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.”

— Bruce Springsteen

69. “I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.”

— Bruce Springsteen

70. “She’s a walkin’, talkin’ reason to live.”

— Bruce Springsteen

71. “Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.”

— Bruce Springsteen

72. “Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land.”

— Bruce Springsteen

73. “When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.”

— Bruce Springsteen

74. “Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers.”

— Bruce Springsteen

75. “Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you’re in love with a Jersey girl.”

— Bruce Springsteen

76. “You’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past.”

— Bruce Springsteen

77. “All you need to do, is risk being your true self.”

— Bruce Springsteen

78. “The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.”

— Bruce Springsteen

79. “Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, ’til half past dawn.”

— Bruce Springsteen

80. “I want to spit in the face of these badlands.”

— Bruce Springsteen

81. “When they built you brother they broke the mold.”

— Bruce Springsteen

82. “Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back. And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.”

— Bruce Springsteen

83. “Blood moon risin’ in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?”

— Bruce Springsteen

84. “When I look at myself, I don’t see the man I wanted to be.”

— Bruce Springsteen

85. “Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.”

— Bruce Springsteen

86. “I got Mary pregnant and man that’s all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.”

— Bruce Springsteen

87. “I know your mama she don’t like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.”

— Bruce Springsteen

88. “Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.”

— Bruce Springsteen

89. “I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.”

— Bruce Springsteen

90. “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

91. “I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I’d make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.”

— Bruce Springsteen

92. “From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.”

— Bruce Springsteen

93. “Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.”

— Bruce Springsteen

94. “The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is – a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.”

— Bruce Springsteen

95. “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.”

— Bruce Springsteen

96. “Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.”

— Bruce Springsteen

97. “You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.”

— Bruce Springsteen

98. “An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it’s something that you fight for.”

— Bruce Springsteen

99. “You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you’re making those connections with your audience then they’re going to go right along with it.”

— Bruce Springsteen

100. “We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.”

— Bruce Springsteen