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" Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music. "
Steven Van Zandt
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" 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. "
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" Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! "
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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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" I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual. "
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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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" Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. "
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" It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun. "
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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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" 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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" Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't. "
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" Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. "
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" 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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" The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything. "
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