Quotes by Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there’s something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

Running

Song

Three

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Army

Sports

Team

Being a rock ‘n’ roll star ain’t a part-time gig.

Gigs

Rocks

Stars

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.

Confused

Mean

Party

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

Acting

Done

Hair

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!

Kids

Real

Rocks

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.

Goal

People

Unique

I didn’t make that much money… Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

Cutting

Pay

Springsteen

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Actors

Brother

Lost Ones

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.

Band

Records

Sound

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Acting

Actors

Army

Around The World

Art

Assessment

Awards

Band

Boss

Brother

Church

Circumstances

Confused

Cutting

Do The Best

Dollars

Done

Effort

Energy

Fans

Feelings

Fun

Gigs

Girlfriend

Goal

Gone

Government

Hair

Jobs

Kevin

Kids

Lifelong

Light

Lost Ones

May

Mean

Mentor

Names

Obsessed

Order

Party

Past

Pay

People

Play

Radio

Real

Records

Rock And Roll

Rocks

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Quotes by Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there’s something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Being a rock ‘n’ roll star ain’t a part-time gig.

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.

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

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.

I didn’t make that much money… Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

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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