All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.
Interpretation
Music that resonates with us may be undervalued by others, yet it holds deep meaning and beauty for those who feel it.
In this quote, Bruce Springsteen reflects on how the music he cherished in his childhood was often dismissed by adults as trivial or worthless. He highlights that while children might not express their appreciation vocally, they possess an innate understanding of the beauty and depth embedded in those songs, indicating that true value can sometimes be overlooked by those who lack a personal connection to it.
In practice
Using this quote to illustrate a point in a discussion about music appreciation in schools.
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.
Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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