A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man. Bruce Springsteen More Quotes by Bruce Springsteen More Quotes From Bruce Springsteen I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless. Bruce Springsteen religious law thinking You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. Bruce Springsteen band understanding gathering I guess there's just a meanness in this world Bruce Springsteen meanness this-world world Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting. Bruce Springsteen real dream night It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear Bruce Springsteen ears dream Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse? Bruce Springsteen suffering dream lying Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. Bruce Springsteen blues-music music-is heard I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. Bruce Springsteen feelings art thinking I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint. Bruce Springsteen hell honesty littles At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head. Bruce Springsteen running night insanity If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. Bruce Springsteen artist heart trying Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around. Bruce Springsteen wanted people way 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 lasts forever live-in-the-moment Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside. Bruce Springsteen checking-out safe weather The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers. Bruce Springsteen my-children reader children Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air. Bruce Springsteen knees air rabbits The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1. Bruce Springsteen knows needs I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice. Bruce Springsteen anxiety voice two I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me. Bruce Springsteen fool kind thinking So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise? Bruce Springsteen eye baby relationship