Bruce Springsteen on Passion

Friend, there’s a reason they don’t call it “working,” it’s called PLAYING! I’ve left enough sweat on stages around the world to fill at least one of the seven seas; I’ve driven myself and my band to the limits and over the edge for more than forty years. We continue to do so but it’s still “playing.” It’s a life-giving, joyful, sweat-drenched, muscle-aching, voice-blowing, mind-clearing, exhausting, soul-invigorating cathartic pleasure and privilege every night. You can sing about your misery, the world’s misery, your most devastating experiences, but there is something in the gathering of souls that blows the blues away. Something that lets the sun in, that keeps you breathing, that lifts you in a way that can’t be explained, only experienced. It’s something to live for.

From “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen, 2016; Photo by Art Meripol (@ameripol) shot in Memphis in 1984

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