And there was no money in Chicago for a band.
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The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.
It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.