629 Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

Everybody’s got a hungry heart.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I’ll buy whatever catches my attention.

I hadn’t performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I’m with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

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

Every rock song is some variation of ‘Pull down your pants’

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap. We got to get out while we’re young.

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

I suppose I took comfort in the illusion that I could go back. But I’d been around long enough to know history is sealed and unchangeable. You can move on, with a heart stronger in the places it’s been broken, create new love. You can hammer pain and trauma into a righteous sword and use it in defense of life, love, human grace and God’s blessings. But nobody gets a do-over. Nobody gets to go back and there’s only one road out. Ahead, into the dark.

You ask for your audience’s investment in your music; you’re in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.