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Bruce Springsteen

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147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

One of the questions I'm asked over and over again by fans on the street is, how do you do it? In the following pages, I'll try to shed a little light on how, and more importantly, why. Thanks for reading that.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

That's actually not having to perform it on stage is a good one. But it's a little different, you know. I'm used to writing something. It becomes a record. It comes out. Then I go perform, and I play it, and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life, but the book has been a little bit different, you know?

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

That's actually not having to perform it on stage is a good one. But it's a little different, you know. I'm used to writing something. It becomes a record. It comes out. Then I go perform, and I play it, and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life, but the book has been a little bit different, you know?

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

That's actually not having to perform it on stage is a good one. But it's a little different, you know. I'm used to writing something. It becomes a record. It comes out. Then I go perform, and I play it, and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life, but the book has been a little bit different, you know?

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

I mean, you get feedback from the press, and the fans are just starting to get a chance to read it, so I'm looking forward to that. But you still had to find the music inside your language, you know? It was... That's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

I mean, you get feedback from the press, and the fans are just starting to get a chance to read it, so I'm looking forward to that. But you still had to find the music inside your language, you know? It was... That's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

I mean, you get feedback from the press, and the fans are just starting to get a chance to read it, so I'm looking forward to that. But you still had to find the music inside your language, you know? It was... That's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

But then once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

But then once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

But then once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

Right.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

Right.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

Right.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

We went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. We had a cousin that went off to Brown University. It was like... a nuclear explosion took place. It was just incredible for everybody.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

We went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. We had a cousin that went off to Brown University. It was like... a nuclear explosion took place. It was just incredible for everybody.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

We went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. We had a cousin that went off to Brown University. It was like... a nuclear explosion took place. It was just incredible for everybody.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

So you're correct. My parents did really sort of live out a big part of that story. And to a certain degree, he did find his little piece of what he was looking for in California.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

So you're correct. My parents did really sort of live out a big part of that story. And to a certain degree, he did find his little piece of what he was looking for in California.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

So you're correct. My parents did really sort of live out a big part of that story. And to a certain degree, he did find his little piece of what he was looking for in California.

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

Yeah, they moved out west. which was a huge undertaking because no one, it's like, it was like moving to another planet for them. But I think that's what my father wanted to do. He wanted to move to another planet.