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

  J. Cole

  Song, Want, Relevant

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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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• 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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• 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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• Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

  Ronnie Spector

  Years, California, Next Day

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• I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

  Andrew Shue

  Two, Fans, Bigs

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• Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

  Alex Chilton

  Needs, Want, Baggage

  "Musician Alex Chilton dies at age 59". www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

  Shane Black

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2005.

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• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

  Nick Hornby

  Running, Song, Feelings

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.169, Penguin

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• Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Writing, White

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• I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

  Tom Perrotta

  Dream, Guitar, Play

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• I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen.

  Lady G

  Obsessed

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• The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Would Be, Labels, Cadillacs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

  Rick Springfield

  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  Song: Bruce, 2007

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• It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.

  Wayne Swan

  Artist, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

  Dana Carvey

  Thinking, Juniors, Lasts

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