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" Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't. "
Steven Van Zandt
Too Much
Pretend
Much
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" I didn't care about anything expect rock & roll. So it's nice that it turned out to be something that you find a way to make a living from. "
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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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" You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals. "
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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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" My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted 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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" Rock n' roll is a participatory sport. "
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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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" Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation. "
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" They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America. "
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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. "
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" In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original. "
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" I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. "
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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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" I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong. "
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" I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me. "
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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. "
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" Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine. "
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" I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. "
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" 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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" 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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