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" My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me. "
Steven Van Zandt
Adopted
Me
Mother
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" 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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" I was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.' "
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" People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature. "
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" I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them. "
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" In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. "
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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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" Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high. "
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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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" Netflix completely shook up the world. "
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" 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
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Time
" 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 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. "
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Fall
Judge
" My father was an ex-Marine Goldwater Republican. "
Steven Van Zandt
Republican
Father
" 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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Band
Never
Perfect
" Life should never be boring. "
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Boring
Never
" Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music. "
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" You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals. "
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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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" Rock n' roll is a participatory sport. "
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Roll
Rock N Roll
" Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. "
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Successful
Life
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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