This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. -Bruce Springsteen Music
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. -Bruce Springsteen Life
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. -Bruce Springsteen Society
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard. -Bruce Springsteen Funny
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. -Bruce Springsteen Music
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 Intelligence
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. -Bruce Springsteen Best
There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up. -Bruce Springsteen Morning
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. -Bruce Springsteen Patriotism
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 Music
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 Time
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. -Bruce Springsteen Imagination
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. -Bruce Springsteen Chance
The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention. -Bruce Springsteen Music
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. -Bruce Springsteen Dad
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 Success
My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. -Bruce Springsteen Dad
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. -Bruce Springsteen Music
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. -Bruce Springsteen Music
