QOTD #76

[ocelot]

"People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with." ~ Bruce Springsteen

[shavonfan]

That's a great quote, but I'm not familiar with its author. What can you tell me about this Bruce? LOL

[shavonfan]

“You know what would have happened – and I'm not making a comparison, because I don't feel worthy to touch their hem – but what would have happened if the Beatles lived, and didn't, you know, disappear up their own arses but actually stayed in contact with the world, were awake. Didn't let their money buy them off. You know I'm still hungry. I still want a lot out of music,” Bono says.

Bono has said when fans are screaming, it’s not about the band, it’s about them. “It's unexplainable what a song means to you. Because, remember, songs, it's not like a movie you see once or twice. A song, it gets under your skin and that's why [we] abandon ourselves to it,” says Bono. “It has a sense of kind of uplift, of getting airborne.”

“Everything feels possible. And maybe more things are possible than we think,” he adds.
*This comes from the "60 Minutes" interview with U2 last night. I think it fits very well with this quote by Bruce Springsteen. It is no wonder that the two (Bruce Springsteen and U2) have such great respect for one another. It's about music. It's about rock and roll. It's about the heart of the matter. It's about conscience. It's about soul.

[ocelot]

I truly agree with you about that. I think it's a quality like that that really draws certain people in. That's the quality that really draws me in to certain artists, like Lara Fabian, Bruce Springsteen, Cindy Morgan, U2, Tina Arena, Shakira, and etc. They care about more than selling records, it's also about the sound, heart, soul, and the world.