Top 250 Bruce Springsteen Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “To her Cheshire smile, I’ll stand on file, she’s all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.”

— Bruce Springsteen

152. “Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It’ll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.”

— Bruce Springsteen

153. “They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.”

— Bruce Springsteen

154. “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.”

— Bruce Springsteen

155. “It’s a town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of here to win.”

— Bruce Springsteen

156. “Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.”

— Bruce Springsteen

157. “The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.”

— Bruce Springsteen

158. “You’ll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I’m just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.”

— Bruce Springsteen

159. “So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?”

— Bruce Springsteen

160. “I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.”

— Bruce Springsteen

161. “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.”

— Bruce Springsteen

162. “The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.”

— Bruce Springsteen

163. “The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock ‘n’ roll band. Thanks, Joe.”

— Bruce Springsteen

164. “The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.”

— Bruce Springsteen

165. “Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.”

— Bruce Springsteen

166. “This, I presented as my long and noisy prayer, my magic trick. Hoping it would rock your very soul and then pass on, its spirit rendered, to be read, heard, sung and altered by you and your blood, that it might strengthen and help make sense of your story. Go tell it. EPILOGUE A few weeks before Thanksgiving, a sunny late fall day springs upon Central Jersey. Sixty-degree.”

— Bruce Springsteen

167. “For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you’re a walking, talking reason to live.”

— Bruce Springsteen

168. “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.”

— Bruce Springsteen

169. “I’m laughing at you, you’re laughing at me.”

— Bruce Springsteen

170. “As a child you don’t question your parents’ choices. You accept them. They.”

— Bruce Springsteen

171. “Let’s raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.”

— Bruce Springsteen

172. “Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.”

— Bruce Springsteen

173. “I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.”

— Bruce Springsteen

174. “Remember all the movies, Terry, we’d go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we’re just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.”

— Bruce Springsteen

175. “I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.”

— Bruce Springsteen

176. “We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down.”

— Bruce Springsteen

177. “If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here’s to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.”

— Bruce Springsteen

178. “The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.”

— Bruce Springsteen

179. “On a good day this is how we live. This is love. This is what life is. The possibility of finding root, safety and nurturing in a new season.”

— Bruce Springsteen

180. “I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.”

— Bruce Springsteen

181. “I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain’t over till it’s over.”

— Bruce Springsteen

182. “The wise men were all fools, what to do?”

— Bruce Springsteen

183. “The name ‘Boss’ started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like ‘Boss, where’s my dough this week?’ And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.”

— Bruce Springsteen

184. “After ‘Born to Run,’ I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who’d come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.”

— Bruce Springsteen

185. “You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.”

— Bruce Springsteen

186. “There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”

— Bruce Springsteen

187. “For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.”

— Bruce Springsteen

188. “Children bring with them grace, patience, transcendence, second chances, rebirth and a reawakening of the love that’s in your heart and present in your home. They are God giving you another shot. My.”

— Bruce Springsteen

189. “The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.”

— Bruce Springsteen

190. “My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.”

— Bruce Springsteen

191. “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.”

— Bruce Springsteen

192. “Tonight I’m stepping lightly and I’m feeling no pain.”

— Bruce Springsteen

193. “In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.”

— Bruce Springsteen

194. “For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.”

— Bruce Springsteen

195. “I had tried to go to college, and I didn’t really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus – I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.”

— Bruce Springsteen

196. “Here we live in the shadow of the steeple, where the holy rubber meets the road, all crookedly blessed in God’s mercy, in the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, race-riot-creating, oddball-hating, soul-shaking, love-and-fear-making, heartbreaking town of Freehold, New Jersey. Let the service begin.”

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bruce Springsteen

198. “One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.”

— Bruce Springsteen

199. “Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.”

— Bruce Springsteen

200. “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