But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the significance of music in the speaker's life, suggesting a deep, intrinsic connection to it over superficial recognition.
In this quote, Bruce Springsteen expresses the essential role of music in his life, suggesting that while he can endure the fame and attention (the 'star thing'), the absence of music would be unbearable. This highlights the idea that true passion transcends external validation and signifies a deeper emotional and personal connection to one's craft, portraying music as a fundamental necessity rather than a luxury.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of art in one's life.
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.
If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... _x000D_ βIf you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.
That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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