You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of a deep connection between an artist and their audience, likening it to a relationship.
Bruce Springsteen highlights the symbiotic relationship between musicians and their audiences, suggesting that audiences invest emotionally in their music. This connection creates a bond that transcends the artist's other endeavors, as fans come to rely on the music and the experience it provides, underlining the significance of this relationship in the realm of performance art.
In practice
During a concert, a musician could use this quote to emphasize their appreciation for their fans.
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.
I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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