With those words, President Barack Obama greeted Bruce Springsteen on Sunday night at a White House reception before the iconic rocker was lauded with Kennedy Center Honors along with Robert De Niro, comic genius Mel Brooks, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry.
About 300 guests, including Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller and Martin Scorsese, were at the reception in the East Room of the White House.
“These performers are indeed the best,” Obama said. “They are also living reminders of a single truth – and I’m going to steal a line from (wife) Michelle here – the arts are not somehow apart from our national life, the arts are the heart of our national life.”
Springsteen, 60, described the award he received Saturday night at a State Department dinner as different than other accolades.
“We worked really hard for our music to be part of American life and our fans’ lives,” he said. “So it’s an acknowledgment that you’ve kind of threaded your way into the culture in a certain way. It’s satisfying.”
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