I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the necessity of pursuing one's passion regardless of circumstances.
Bruce Springsteen's quote highlights the idea that true artists cannot separate their identity from their art. Even if he were to take on a completely different profession, the passion and need to create music would remain, demonstrating that artistic expression is an integral part of who he is.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
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 don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
Calligraphy of geese_x000D_ against the sky-_x000D_ the moon seals it.
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.