4Because Tramps Like Us, Baby We Were Born to Run:

On Music

" For an adult the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibilty, 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...People carry that with them sometimes for a very long period of time.

Bruce Springsteen, The New Yorker "

For me, it is Bach's Cello Suites. No matter what mood I might be in, one note of "Suite No. 2 in D Minor" and I'm instantly filled with a sense of wonder. Why Bach? I have no idea. I'm from New Jersey and was reared on Springsteen and Motown before eventually migrating to the hardcore punk ...

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