Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

"I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here."
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"I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here."
Bruce Springsteen
"Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more... Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right."
Bruce Springsteen
"I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree."
Bruce Springsteen
"My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really."
Bruce Springsteen
"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."
Bruce Springsteen
"Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
Bruce Springsteen
"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."
Bruce Springsteen
"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
Bruce Springsteen
"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination."
Bruce Springsteen
"I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard."
Bruce Springsteen
"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."
Bruce Springsteen
"There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."
Bruce Springsteen
"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."
Bruce Springsteen
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
Bruce Springsteen
"Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time."
Bruce Springsteen
"For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere."
Bruce Springsteen
"There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up."
Bruce Springsteen
"I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
Bruce Springsteen
"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
Bruce Springsteen
"Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why."
Bruce Springsteen
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