You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of a deep connection between an artist and their audience, likening it to a relationship.
Bruce Springsteen highlights the symbiotic relationship between musicians and their audiences, suggesting that audiences invest emotionally in their music. This connection creates a bond that transcends the artist's other endeavors, as fans come to rely on the music and the experience it provides, underlining the significance of this relationship in the realm of performance art.
In practice
During a concert, a musician could use this quote to emphasize their appreciation for their fans.
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart _x000D_ _x000D_ Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell_x000D_ And I feel like I'm comin' home.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
No matter what you got, the blues is there
If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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