629 Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

I want a thousand guitars.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it’s all at, it’s what lights the fire.

Blood moon risin’ in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought, reacted, behaved. I came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you’re a Catholic, you’re always a Catholic. So I stopped kidding myself. I don’t often participate in my religion but I know somewhere... deep inside... I’m still on the team.

I’m interested in what it means to be an American. I’m interested in what it means to live in America. I’m interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I’m interested in trying to define what that country is.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is – a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

The bride and her hero are whisked away in their long black limousine, the one that drops you off at the beginning of your life.

Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days – yeah, they’ll pass you by, Glory days – in the wink of a young girl’s eye.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I’d make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.