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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on
itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions,
corruption: this is all the world closing in. Music, when
it’s really great, pries that shit back open and lets people
back in, it lets light in, and air in, and energy in, and
sends people home with that and sends me back to the hotel
with it. People carry that with them sometimes for a very long
period of time….T-Bone Burnett said that rock and roll is
all about “Daaaaddy!” It’s one embarrassing scream of
“Daaaaddy!” It’s just fathers and sons, and you’re out
there proving something to somebody in the most intense way
possible. It’s, like, “Hey, I was worth a little more
attention than I got! You blew that one, big guy!”
-- Bruce
Springsteen, interviewed by David Remnick in the New
Yorker
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