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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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" 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. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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. "

" I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times. "

" The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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. "

" Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good. "

" 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. "

" I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual. "

" I met all my heroes on the oldies circuit: Gary U.S. Bonds, Lloyd Price, Little Richard. "

" You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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. "

" Netflix completely shook up the world. "

Steven Van Zandt

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" Life should never be boring. "

" My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. "

" 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. "

" Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements. "

" Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization. "

" I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music. "

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

Steven Van Zandt

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" Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or four years of my life, and all of my musical energy went into that. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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. "

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