Steven Van Zandt Quotes

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Steven Van Zandt

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 22, 1950

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

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Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

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Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.

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It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun.

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Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

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I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

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Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

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I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.

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I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.

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You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

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I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

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I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd.

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Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

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It's a challenge every year with a TV series. You want to keep evolving and keep it going. That's part of the fun.

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I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole new Golden Era of television - one being 'The Sopranos' with HBO and now with Netflix expanding that whole HBO concept to the world and making it more of a global thing. It's been wonderful to witness that from those two vantage points.

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I was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.'

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The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

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Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

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'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.

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For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

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