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Quotes by Jon Landau

“I saw rock n roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”

“Were coming back to some of our favorite cities to make sure the fans get a chance to see how this tour has evolved over the course of the last 50 shows. Bruce just keeps stretching the boundaries of his performance night after night, and the result has been some of the very best concerts of his entire career.”

“I knew, because I knew the songs, that this album was going to be phenomenal,”

“We knew exactly what we wanted. We were not in it to do something average. We were not in it to get any particular song on the radio. We were in it to do something great.”

“He didnt want to make a sequel. And hes never made a sequel. There was a culmination of part of his writing that he doesnt repeat.”

“We had ambition to burn.”

What makes the Stones arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they werent rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent Basement Tapes will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilsons reasons for the destruction of the tapes for Smile.