Bruce springsteen Inspirational Quotes

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

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

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

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

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...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...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again

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.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

You can't start a fire without a spark

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

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.

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

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

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.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

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.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

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

Two hearts are better than one.

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.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

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

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

I'm ready to grow young again

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

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

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

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.

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

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences.

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

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.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

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.

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

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

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

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

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

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.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

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

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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.