Steven Van Zandt Quotes

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• My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Mentor, Gone, Lifelong

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• Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

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  Earth, Common, Speak

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• Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

  Steven Van Zandt

  Real, Kids, Rocks

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• Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

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  Sports, Team, Army

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• Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

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  Running, Song, Three

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• I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

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  Unique, People, Goal

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• I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

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  Song, Girlfriend, Sex

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• The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

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  Rocks, Order, Rock And Roll

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• It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

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  Song, Play, People

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• Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

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  Timing, Circumstances

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• The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

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  Father, Simple, Democracy

  "There Is Only One Issue In America" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.

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• I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Trying, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

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  Hair, Acting, Done

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

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  Order, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

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  Artist, Quality, Different

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• Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

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  Genre Is, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

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  Brother, Lost Ones, Actors

  Twitter post from Jun 20, 2013

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• I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Pagan

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• As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the medias power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

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  Beautiful, Country, Strong

  "Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.

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  Confused, Party, Mean

  "Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

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  Cutting, Pay, Springsteen

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• Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.

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  Light, Assessment, Effort

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

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  Band, World, Underrated

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• Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

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  Past, Fans, Want

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

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  Dream, Stars, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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