Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
Interpretation
Artists must engage others emotionally through their passion and creations.
This quote by Bruce Springsteen highlights the essence of being an artist, which goes beyond mere creation; it involves connecting with an audience on a deeper level. Artists are tasked with expressing their obsessions in a way that resonates with others, making their personal passions and artistic pursuits relevant and compelling to the world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity in the workplace.
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 play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... Itβs this in-between that Iβm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.
The fun for me musically is that you never quite know what works and why. So why pretend you do? Why not just put things together and discover, in the creative process, if and why they work? That approach has served me well.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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