Bruce Springsteen Quotes

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.

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

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You aint a beauty but hey you're all right

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Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.

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Talk about a dream,try to make it real

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Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

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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.

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Blame it on the lies that killed us Blame it on the truth that ran us down You can blame it all on me, Terry It don't matter to me now.

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It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

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Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

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

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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.

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I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

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

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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

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.

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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

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

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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.

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

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