Quotes by Steven Van Zandt - Page 3

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Band
British
Changed
Guy
Important Events
Invasion
Jersey
New Jersey
Night
Life Me My Life
Life Done Me
Life Me Night
Seen
Elvis
Event
Guys
Saw
The Most Important
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C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Bags
Bases
Doctors
Military Bases
Prepared
Relief
Supplies
Alongside
Dropped
Efforts
Packed
Sleeping
Soldiers
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When I was younger, I went through the windshield of a car ,and my hair didn't grow back right. I had been wearing scarves occasionally, and I decided that I didn't want to deal with wigs and things, so I just stumbled onto my thing.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Wigs
Occasionally
Onto
Stumbled
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Sometimes there's no qualitative difference between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half hour shows. It's just a matter of how long you do it. It's not like the show must be three hours and 30 minutes to work. That's just not the case.
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Qualitative
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Buddhist
Christian
Pagan
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Sports
Army
Band
Band Members
Combination
Elements
Members
Special
Stronger
Team
Together
Unique
Winning
Working Together
Great Together People
Apart
Becomes
Bond
Working
Highly
Some People
Specialized
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Corporate
Democracy
Dictatorship
Father
Founding
Simple
Beholden
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Human Being
Intended
Simple Fact
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I'm always surprised when a sequel is not as good or better than the first one. I never understand that. You've already set your own bar. You've already done the hard work. It should be easier to make the second one, but a lot of the times, it's not.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Hard Work
Work Good Hard Work
Work Good Better
Bar
First One
Sequel
Surprised
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Common
Common Goal
Contributing
Goal
Greater
Interaction
Obsession
People
Unique
I Am Me Day
Me Day I Am
Day One
Parts
Sum
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Dream
Nice
Stars
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'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
First Time
Introduction
Jazz
Time I Am Me
Time Done Past
Collection
Album
Blues
Element
Time Me Past
In The Past
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What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Anticipation
Around The World
Boss
Disaster
Effort
Execution
Needs
Relief
Rescue
Urgent
Person
Around
True
Commander
Czar
Efforts
Emergency
Master
Immediate
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Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Religion
Everlasting
Fallen
Good News
Good Work
Lost
Moving
Moving Forward
News
Heroes
Bodies
Bringing
Continue
Create
Disciples
Flag
Forth
Helped
Lose
Rock
Pick
Spirits
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Absurd
Environment
Falsehood
Irrational
Pollution
Somewhere
Bought
Choose
Complete
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In 'The Sopranos,' these guys know their best years are behind them. They have nostalgia for their old traditions. In their minds, they're looking for a time when loyalty mattered, community mattered. E Street is about community, too. People are looking for something real.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Loyalty
Community
Nostalgia
Sopranos
Behind
Street
Guys
Mattered
Minds
The Sopranos
Traditions
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Confused
Diplomacy
Ignorant
Mean
Party
Tea Party
Uneducated
Appear
Craft
First Of All
Platform
Political Process
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There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Actors
Beatty
Kevin
Names
Established
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Clooney
Costner
Directing
Eastwood
George
George Clooney
High Percentage
Percentage
Remarkably
Unusually
Warren
Warren Beatty
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Beautiful
Country
Strong
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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 media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Beautiful Country
Confused
Disappointed
Hopeless
Peace Of Mind
Population
Quality Of Life
Surviving
Barely
Restore
Suffers
Wondering
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Assessment
Casualties
Damage
Disaster
Educated
Effort
Generator
Infrastructure
Light
Peril
Personnel
Rescue
Supplies
Degree
Dropped
Efforts
Event
Imminent
Lights
Simultaneously
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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.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Expanding
Golden
Hbo
Pivotal
Sopranos
Witness
The Sopranos
Vantage
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This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Midnight
Enjoying
Organic
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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 / Musician
Kids
Music
Black
Black Music
Failing
Half
Jam
Masters
Modern
Modern World
Pearl Jam
Real
Rock And Roll
Rocks
White
Started
Personality World Your
As Far As
Back
Far
Further
Goes
Historians
Rock
Pearl
Studying
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I grew up in a renaissance period, a very lucky time when the greatest music ever made was also the most commercial. We'll never see that again, so for me, there's only one criteria, which is greatness. That's all I care about. Is what I'm doing reaching for greatness? Whether I achieve it or not, that is one hundred percent of my criteria.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Criteria
Greatness
Reaching
Renaissance
Time Music Me
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