Bruce Springsteen – MusiCares Person Of The Year Speech

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[Bruce Springsteen - MusiCares Person Of The Year Speech]

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our 2013 MusiCares Person of the Year, Bruce Springsteen.

[Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you, thanks a lot. It’s kind of a freaky experience, the whole thing, it’s – it is a bit like, this is the Italian wedding Patti and I never had. It’s a huge Bar Mitzvah. Your life does – did kind of pass and John legend made me sound like Gershwin, I love that. Neil Young made me sound like the Sex Pistols, I love that.

You know, what a night, quite a night, uh makes me proud to be a musician. Here tonight with my mom, she is 87, she is here with me, yeah. My sister, it’s her birthday, happy birthday sis. My lovely daughter is with me tonight, her boyfriend, and Ricky and Marian are my cousins who raised our children with us, thank you Ricky and Marian for being here with me.

Got to walk through red carpet, that was – it was fun. And Patty, what can I say, you know, 20, 25, years we’ve been together, love you, love you. I’m glad you could all share this night with me. I’m glad to be here for MusiCares, it’s a great organization, it takes care of musicians. They take care of the people who is taking care of us with their voices and with their songs, with their blood, with their sweat and tears and with their lovely and great artistry.

The people whose music have inspired us and soothe their broken hearts, angered us, whose music we’ve got married to, divorced to, music that’s been with us on our blackest days, stood by us in war and in peace, made us laugh, made us be strong, helped us not be stupid and formed us and loved us.

Music, do you believe in magic? There is no faith required, none whatsoever, because it’s all like this evening, right? Here in front of you.

[Bruce Springsteen] Source: LYBIO.net
I’ve seen it, I’ve been a part of the miracle of music. I’ve seen people tired and depressed and weary and worn out, soul off. And I’ve seen them revived, rise from their seats and dance.

The Taliban will never win, not now or not ever, not here, not in Timbuktu by banning the music and dancing, don’t tell them. The minute you do that, you label yourself a tyrant and your cruel days are numbered. The minute Timbuktu was liberated, what did people do? They played music, and they danced.

I was so happy to read that in the paper. I was happy for them, and happy for us “Vive la France!” You can’t triumph without music because music is life; music is the birds singing, the wheat rustling in the fields, strumming of the wind through the leaves of that tree that was in the backyard of your childhood home. The earth and the stars rolling through the heavens at night, before man or a woman heard their name, they heard music. They heard the wind rushing past their eardrums, the grasses humming with insects, the birds knocking and rocking in the trees.

Thank you MusiCares for taking care of musicians, because we are bad with our money, we spend it too freely, and on too many stupid things. We drink it away, we do drugs, we love too many and the wrong people, we are the wrong people.

[Bruce Springsteen] Source: LYBIO.net
You know, we fuck up many people’s lives, many people’s lives, while setting fire to our own dancing down the street. We are a brother and sisterhood of magical fuck-ups, and we need you.

Because once in a while we get it right, and then we sing about it, and we sing about it and we are musicians. Take me for instance, I am here tonight under totally false pretenses, because whatever philanthropy I’ve ever done, it usually just involves me playing the guitar, making a few bucks and bringing some attention to the folks that are really doing the work, shouldn’t count really much. I mean, I was going to be playing the guitar anyway.

You know, and I am actually, I’m here tonight because last year, Mr. Landau, my manager called me up and said, “Boss, what do you think about opening the Grammys this year with your new song, and we had a new record, and I thought it was one of the berst records that I ever made, and so I wanted to promote it, right?

[Bruce Springsteen] Source: LYBIO.net
And I said, “It sounds great.” Because I am going to call Ken Ehrlich right now, all right, he is the Grammy producer, I met him, I don’t know maybe back in ‘96 when I sang The Ghost of Tom Joad, and he had me under like 10,000 lights, it looked like I was going to be abducted by aliens.

We sort of – but anyway, I said go ahead call Ken; John calls back the next day says, “Ken loves the song, and he would love to have a 63-year-old man open the Grammys, and – and would you like to be MusiCares Person of the Year?” Now, I’m pretty sure he said, “And” though he might have said “If.” He might have actually said, if you will be MusiCares Person of the Year or he might have said, “And”, and then he left a really long pause so that the “And” became “if” while it was hanging out there.

And he said, we’re going to be out there anyway for you to pick up your best album award, because we are optimists. So even though I have gathered all of these people, some of my great heroes, all these new youngsters here tonight is fabulous musicians. The evening actually had its origins in a mercenary promotional opportunity.

Um, but, it’s a great night anyway, because people played music. So I’m having one of the loveliest nights of my life tonight, I was just, I got the auction, you know; just some I’ve really – the circle is a strange thing.

You know Ben Harper had Charlie Musselwhite playing with him on the harmonica, you know, I opened for Charlie Musselwhite in a little club in San Francisco, he will not remember me, right? When I was my daughter’s age, you know, and I have Patty Smith here in my life again. We always called that song our song, but really it’s her song, right? I would have never finished it, I couldn’t-didn’t have a story and the beautiful story of Fred’s Telephone Call, and if I’d had finished it, I would have never had a hit with you, I would have never had.

[Bruce Springsteen] Source: LYBIO.net
And see you gave me one of my greatest, and I play this song almost every night, so it’s your song and thank you for being here along with all of the other musicians, that’s the humbling thing. I mean, it’s wonderful to see people come up and sing your music, the young musicians. Musicians like the great musicians that are gathered here tonight, there is a group of people who are always in search, born searchers, born to get lost, born to get lost.

Because that’s 98% of it and then suddenly, suddenly you’re home. All people who are always in search of the power to sustain, the best of ourselves and to seek out the best in you, our fans and our audience. We want to be great. Like Neil says in his book, “Be great or be gone,” we want to be great, we want to be important in your life, that was all that mattered to me. I didn’t care if I was going to be a, I don’t know if it’s going to make it rich or be famous or but I wanted to be great more than anything else, and I wanted to be important in your life.

[Bruce Springsteen] Source: LYBIO.net
Because you keep us in search of the force that reignites our gifts, our ability to make you want to move, to dance, to love, to make love, to be angry, to act. When we play, we want the hair to stand up on your arms; we want you to feel the glory. And we want you to be glad of being alive. And really at the end of the day, that’s all there is to it. My fellow musicians, young and old tonight, thanks for taking care of me and taking care of my songs this evening. I’ll never forget it and I owe each and every one of you; one. You made me feel like: Person of the Year. Now give me that damn guitar.

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