BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN QUOTES IV

American musician (1949- )

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q Magazine, August, 1992

Tags: success


The times are tough now, just getting tougher.
This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher.
Cover me, come on baby, cover me.
Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Cover Me", Born in the U.S.A.


I was unrecognizable to myself.
I saw my reflection in a window I didn't know
My own face.
Oh brother are you gonna leave me?
Wastin' away
On the streets of Philadelphia.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Streets of Philadelphia"


Tonight our bed is cold;
I'm lost in the darkness of our love.
God have mercy on the man
Who doubts what he's sure of.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Brilliant Disguise", Tunnel of Love

Tags: doubt


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.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"The River"


Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time.
Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign.
If there's a light up ahead well brother I don't know.
But I got this fever burnin' in my soul.
So let's take the good times as they go,
And I'll meet you further on up the road.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Further On (Up the Road)", The Rising


Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that I can't,
And that no matter what I do it's all over now between me and you girl.
But I can't believe what you say;
No I can't believe what you say 'cause baby
I don't wanna fade away.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Fade Away", The River


Better ask questions before you shoot,
Deceit and betrayal's bitter fruit.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Lonesome Day", The Rising

Tags: betrayal


It was terrible, you know. In truth, it was awful, an awful way to make records but it was the only way we knew how. Everybody simply suffered through it and the endless, endless, endless hours I can't begin to explain.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

interview, NPR, January 15, 2014


It was a moment when your music was the totality of your identity, and so you were so caught up and so invested in it.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015

Tags: identity


Your producer is always your first audience.... He's the first guy you play the song for, he's the first guy you are seducing with the music that you've written -- you're trying to get him excited about what he thinks he can do with it -- and then it just, you know, it just starts to become cumulatively explosive, you know.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

interview, NPR, January 15, 2014


There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Bruce Springsteen Talking

Tags: parents


Can't see nothin' in front of me;
Can't see nothin' coming up behind.
I make my way through this darkness;
I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me.
Lost track of how far I've gone,
How far I've gone, how high I've climbed.
On my back's a sixty pound stone,
On my shoulder a half mile line.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"The Rising"