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" 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
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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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" The River,' to me, meant 43 songs. "
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" I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am. "
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" When I was younger, I went through the windshield of a car ,and my hair didn't grow back right. I had been wearing scarves occasionally, and I decided that I didn't want to deal with wigs and things, so I just stumbled onto my thing. "
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" 'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft. "
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Learning
Fun
" 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
" Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. "
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Life
Afraid
" Life should never be boring. "
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Life
Boring
Never
" My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. "
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Business
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Him
" As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor. "
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Craft
Walk
You
" I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes. "
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Reluctance
Meet
Heroes
" For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change. "
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Change
World
Money
" Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. "
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Timing
Up
Makes
" 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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Rock
You
Living
" To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something. "
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" I learned a lot from Bruce Springsteen and David Chase. "
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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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" 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 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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Good
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" Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization. "
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World
Emergency
" Rock n' roll is a participatory sport. "
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" 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. "
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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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