I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the deep connection between an artist and their audience, emphasizing the significance of genuine performance.
Bruce Springsteen expresses the essence of live performance, highlighting that both he and the audience seek a shared experience where emotions are stirred and profound moments are created. He acknowledges that whether performing solo or with a band, the goal remains the same: to evoke feelings and create a transformative experience for the listeners.
In practice
In a speech at a music festival, an artist might mention this quote to highlight the purpose of their performance.
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.
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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