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" I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract. "

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" You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit. "

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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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" For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know? "

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" I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you. "

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

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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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" Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far - as much as a showman as he may be. "

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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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" Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. "

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" Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather. "

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" I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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 think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime. "

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" The only reason why I made solo records was because I got so obsessed with politics, and that is quite personal. I don't really philosophically believe in solo records. "

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

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