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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. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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. "

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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 just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong. "

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" As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor. "

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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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" Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation. "

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" I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I had decided it all comes down to one single issue: campaign-finance elimination. "

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" People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature. "

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" I learned a lot from Bruce Springsteen and David Chase. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years. "

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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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" 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! "

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" I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into. "

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" There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment. "

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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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" I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever. "

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" I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s. "

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" Rock n' roll is a participatory sport. "

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" For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing. "

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" The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club. "

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" In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original. "

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" I was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.' "

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" I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca. "

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" It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it. "

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" I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left. "

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" You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals. "

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" Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world. "

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" 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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