Bruce Springsteen Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Father, Kids, Years

• I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
  Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fathers Day, Dad, Heart

  Song: My Father's House, Album: Nebraska, 1982

• 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. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dad, Father, Book

  Source: www.npr.org

• I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Revenge, Father, Voice

  Source: www.npr.org

• The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Country, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.npr.org

• Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Father, Self

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