Springsteen Quotes

• I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Work, Integrity, Body

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• I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

  Max Weinberg

  Artist, Play, People

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• I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Years, Records, Singers

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• And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

  John Lennon

  Hope, Helping, Turns

  "John Lennon's Final Rolling Stone Interview Published On Anniversary Of Death" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2010.

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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  Niall Horan

  Gun, Names, America

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• I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Names, Saws

  "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

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• You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Enemy, Graffiti

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• I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

  J. Cole

  Song, Want, Relevant

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• Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

  Tom Morello

  Clueless, Band, Machines

  "Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'" by Tom Morello, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're never going to have a Bruce Springsteen, those guys didn't make it off of their first single and real artists probably won't make it off of their first singles.

  Richard Patrick

  Real, Artist, Guy

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

  John Cusack

  Song, Past, People

  Interview With Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. April 14, 2003.

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• I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

  Harlan Coben

  Games, Want, Painting

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Interview with Sara Nelson, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

  T Bone Burnett

  Kids, Guitar, Conquer The World

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• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the Pinkerton tour, and Pinkerton is the reason why Im doing this.

  Nate Ruess

  Dad, Kids, Reason Why

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• Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Writing, Hair

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• Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances are SECOND TO NONE !

  Mike Appel

  Land, Band, Tramps

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• We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

  Brian Williams

  War, Moon, Phones

  "What Now? 22 Influential Citizens on the New American Era". www.esquire.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Cutting, Pay, Huge

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• Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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• I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that
  Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

  Rick Ross

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Boss

  Song: Fuck Em

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• I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

  Demi Lovato

  Garden, Squares, One Day

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• I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person.

  Rod Stewart

  Thinking, People, Satin

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

  Sting

  Interesting, Singing, Getting Older

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• Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

  James Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "James Taylor: 'I never did feel like I was the cool one'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 21, 2008.

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