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Bruce Springsteen Quotes (1949-)
Writer, Poet, Singer
About Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born 23 September 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has released 20 studio albums, many of which feature his backing band the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is one of the originators of the heartland rock style of music, combining mainstream rock musical style with narrative songs about working class American life. During a career that has spanned six decades, Springsteen has become known for his poetic, socially conscious lyrics and energetic stage performances, sometimes lasting up to four hours in length. He has been nicknamed "the Boss".
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“Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!”
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?”
Or is it something worse?”
“Spare parts
And broken hearts
Keep the world turnin' around.”
And broken hearts
Keep the world turnin' around.”
“There ain't a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.”
- Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen Talking
“Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun.
But Mama, that's where the fun is ...”
But Mama, that's where the fun is ...”
“Here everybody has a neighbor,
Everybody has a friend.
Everybody has a reason to begin again.”
Everybody has a friend.
Everybody has a reason to begin again.”
“In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged.”
- Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen Talking
“For the ones who had a notion,
A notion deep inside,
That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.”
A notion deep inside,
That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.”
“Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.”
“When they built you brother, they turned this dust to gold.
When they built you brother, they broke the mold.”
When they built you brother, they broke the mold.”
“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”
Let the brokenhearted love again.
Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide”
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Bruce Springsteen on Cadillac 4 quotes
“Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark shiny and black Open up your engines, let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur”
Bruce Springsteen on Dreams
“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse?”
Bruce Springsteen on Vietnam War
Bruce Springsteen on Watergate scandal
“I think what's happening now is people want to forget. There was Vietnam, there was Watergate, there was Iran – we were beaten, we were hustled, and then we were humiliated. And I think people got a need to feel good about the country they live in. But what's happening, I think, is that that need – which is a good thing – is gettin' manipulated and exploited. And you see the Reagan reelection ads on TV – you know: "It's morning in America." And you say, well, it's not morning in Pittsburgh. It's not morning above 125th Street in New York. It's midnight, and, like, there's a bad moon risin'. And that's why when Reagan mentioned my name in New Jersey, I felt it was another manipulation, and I had to disassociate myself from the president's kind words.”
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Bruce Springsteen on Bob Dylan
“Dylan was a revolutionary. Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body. ... To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan.”
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Jeff Baxter on Bruce Springsteen
Bono on Bruce Springsteen 5 quotes
“Here was a dude who carried himself like Brando, Dylan, and Elvis. If John Steinbeck could sing, if Van Morrison could ride a Harley-Davidson. But he was something new, too. He was the first whiff of Scorsese, the first hint of Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, and the Clash. He was the end of long hair, brown rice and bell bottoms. It was the end of the 20-minute drum solo. It was good night, Haight-Ashbury; hello, Asbury Park.”
Barbara Ehrenreich on Bruce Springsteen
“The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public igominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.”
Brandon Flowers on Bruce Springsteen
“I couldn't believe how happy his music made me and how good it was. He's a gift, and I didn't know. I mean, I knew 'Born in the USA' and 'Glory Days,' but I didn't know that he covered so much ground, and there was something in his music that touched what I was going through, the process of falling back in love with my America.”
Van Jones on Bruce Springsteen
“Bruce Springsteen put it best in 2004 when he said: "America is not always right. That's a fairy tale for children.... But one thing America should always be is true. And it's in seeking her truth, both the good and the bad, that we find a deeper patriotism, that we find a more authentic experience as citizens, that we find the power that is embedded only in truth to change our world for the better."”
Jon Landau on Bruce Springsteen
“Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”
About Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born 23 September 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has released 20 studio albums, many of which feature his backing band the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is one of the originators of the heartland rock style of music, combining mainstream rock musical style with narrative songs about working class American life. During a career that has spanned six decades, Springsteen has become known for his poetic, socially conscious lyrics and energetic stage performances, sometimes lasting up to four hours in length. He has been nicknamed "the Boss".