The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the diverse musical influences of The E Street Band.
Bruce Springsteen emphasizes the eclectic range of musical styles and influences that have shaped The E Street Band's sound. By acknowledging elements from primitive garage music to jazz and rock, he highlights the band's ability to blend various genres and showcase their versatility.
In practice
This quote can be used during a music festival to highlight the importance of diverse musical influences.
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.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
It's a gift, and a blessing, just to have a voice. And I'm proud that people do appreciate it, you know?
Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.
Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
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