629 Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

That you know flag flying over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.

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.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

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.

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

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

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

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