629 Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there’s innocence contained in you but there’s also innocence in the process of being lost.

In America everything’s about who’s number one today.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it’s very hard to hold your breath.

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that’s a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

If you’re good, you’re always looking over your shoulder.

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.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you’re making those connections with your audience then they’re going to go right along with it.

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

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.