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.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.
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