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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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Challenge
You
Year
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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. "
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" I learned a lot from Bruce Springsteen and David Chase. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Sleeping
World
Water
" It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun. "
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Rock
Dance
Fun
" A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it. "
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War
You
Name
" 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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Acting
Years
New
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Matter
Truth
Unique
" Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean. "
Steven Van Zandt
Saying
You
Job
" I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that. "
Steven Van Zandt
Idea
People
Soul
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Rock And Roll
You
Learn
" Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation. "
Steven Van Zandt
Liberation
His
Out
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Slow
You
Lose
" I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca. "
Steven Van Zandt
Vegas
Mecca
Like
" 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
" 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
Done
Better
Hard Work
" I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team. "
Steven Van Zandt
Country
Fall
Judge
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Van
Walk
Act
" 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
" Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. "
Steven Van Zandt
Timing
Up
Makes
" I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times. "
Steven Van Zandt
Scream
America
Come
" I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist. "
Steven Van Zandt
Political
Time
Artist
" I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you. "
Steven Van Zandt
Thank You
Politics
You
" People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature. "
Steven Van Zandt
Want
Human Nature
People
" They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America. "
Steven Van Zandt
Shocking
Thing
Us
" 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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People
Unique
Me
" 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. "
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My Life
Up
Three
" 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. "
Steven Van Zandt
Never
Street
Leaving
" 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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People
Support
Environment
" Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you may have it when you're 17 or when you're 67. "
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Music
Old
People