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" I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me. "
Steven Van Zandt
Need
Me
Big Picture
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" I had the wonderful good luck of having Jimmy Gandolfini as my mentor and David Chase as my godfather, two of the most talented guys in the history of television. "
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" Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization. "
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World
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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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" You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals. "
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" People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature. "
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Human Nature
People
" 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. "
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World
Water
" Go out and support your local rock n' roll band. "
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Rock
Local
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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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Most
People
" 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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Long Time
You
Time
" I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them. "
Steven Van Zandt
Band
You
Things
" 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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Family
Rock
Me
" I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go. "
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Never
Perfect
" 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. "
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Time
Community
Best
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Look
You
Want
" 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
Tea
Political
People
" Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. "
Steven Van Zandt
Successful
Life
Afraid
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Long
Show
Work
" Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high. "
Steven Van Zandt
Doing
Whatever
Try
" 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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How
Band
Sound
" They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America. "
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Shocking
Thing
Us
" Bands should never break up. "
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Break Up
Break
Never
" I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime. "
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Becoming
Who
People
" Netflix completely shook up the world. "
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Up
Shook
World
" 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
People
Support
Environment
" In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original. "
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Mind
Original
Than
" 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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Politics
Deep
Down
" 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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World
Great
Lose
" Once Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are not cool on country radio, it's time for a new format. "
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New
Cash
Cool
" 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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Idea
People
Soul
" I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. "
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Way
World
Modern