All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
Interpretation
Create music with intent and emotion rather than for commercial success.
In this quote, Bruce Springsteen emphasizes the importance of authenticity in music creation. He believes that meaningful music arises from the artist's true feelings and dedication, suggesting that commitment and passion are essential ingredients for impactful artistry.
In practice
During a speech at a music festival, to inspire young musicians.
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 material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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