Bruce Springsteen quotes - page 5

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music. (Bruce Springsteen)
In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it. View quote
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When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s. View quote
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Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous. View quote
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No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. View quote
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It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people. View quote
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She'll let you in her house If you come knockin' late at night. She'll let you in her mouth If the words you say are right. If you pay the price, She'll let you deep inside. But there's a secret garden she hides. (Bruce Springsteen)
And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce, Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light. She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright. View quote
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I stood stonelike at midnight, suspended in my masquerade. I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade. I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch. I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched. View quote
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And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds. Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god. View quote
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And we danced all night to a soul fairy band. And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can. She felt just right just like as sweet as a spirit in the night. In the night baby don't know what she do to you? Spirits in the night, in the night. Stand up now and let her shoot right through you. View quote
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Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do? For me this boardwalk life is through, babe. You ought to quit this scene too. View quote
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And in the lonely cool before dawn, You hear their engines roaring on. But when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind. So Mary climb in. It's a town full of losers, And I'm pulling out of here to win. View quote
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Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be. And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland. View quote
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Well, I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith that can save me I believe in the hope And I pray that some day it may raise me Above these badlands. View quote
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Now I don't know what it always was with us. We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines. There was just no way this house could hold the two of us. I guess that we were just too much of the same kind. View quote
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Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote. And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat. We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest. No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle, No flowers no wedding dress.That night we went down to the river. And into the river we'd dive. Oh down to the river we did ride. (Bruce Springsteen)
I was gonna be your Romeo you were gonna be my Juliet. These days you don't wait on Romeo's, You wait on that welfare check. View quote
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Sometimes I sit up in the darkness, And I watch my baby as she sleeps. Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight. I just lay there awake in the middle of the night, Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway. View quote
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Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight And I'm going to drink till I get my fill. And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it, But I probably will. Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture A little of the glory of, Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days. View quote
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Well it's Saturday night you're all dressed up in blue. I been watching you awhile, maybe you been watching me too. So somebody ran out, left somebody's heart in a mess. Well if you're looking for love, honey I'm tougher than the rest. View quote
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