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Bruce Springsteen

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Power of Lyrics

I had a record tunnel of love where I wrote most of the songs in about three weeks, but it's also not in common to spend a year and a half trying to find an album. Do the lyrics typically come first or did the chords come first? Is there any rule in the way that songs come to you? No, no. That moment is a moment that I have never heard anyone able to explain. It manifests itself as a physical piece of music.

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