“If you spend your life making albums and touring them, that’s more than enough”: The Bruce Springsteen advice that helped Jack Antonoff reject the culture of “a million side hustles”
Producer and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff has shared a vital nugget of advice that Bruce Springsteen gave him about the importance of focusing on the music in this era when everyone is expected to have a side-hustle.
Antonoff has a huge discography, spanning a range of impressive production credits for the likes of Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and more, plus a range of records for his own band. Despite this, he feels he’s no more productive than anyone else, and has avoided overstretching himself thanks to a tip from The Boss.
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Discussing his mighty catalogue in a new feature with Variety, Antonoff says, “This is one of the great things that Bruce has said to me. I was talking about [today’s] culture, where everyone is their own weird version of a renaissance man and has a million side hustles and shoe lines and all these things, and I was feeling like I needed to do more of that,” he states.
“He said, ‘If you spend your life making albums and touring them, that’s more than enough.’ It sounds like a very simple statement but it’s actually very deep, because I think he could tell that I needed someone in his shoes to say, ‘That’s all you need.’”
Asked if he’d ever been given any other great advice from Springsteen, Antonoff responds, “Endless. There are certain people who they make the concept of getting older seem terrifying, like old age is a place where the scope gets more narrow. So if you are lucky enough to find people who make it seem like a wonderful place, where life actually grows and the scope gets bigger and there’s more excitement and more love and more truth, more of a journey, you hold onto them.
“He’s just one of those people worth believing in. Nick Cave is another perfect example – I’ve been seeing him [perform] for 20-plus years and he’s better than ever, he’s crushing it in a young person’s game. If that doesn’t make you realise what it means to be on a stage and what’s possible…”
Jack Antonoff has produced Lana Del Rey’s forthcoming album, The Right Person Will Stay, which lands in May 2025.
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