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!
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. - Steven Van Zandt
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.
- Steven Van Zandt
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… - Steven Van Zandt
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…
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. - Steven Van Zandt
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.
You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy. - Steven Van Zandt
You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. - Steven Van Zandt
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. - Steven Van Zandt
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.
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 som… - Steven Van Zandt
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 som…
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. - 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.
As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their… - Steven Van Zandt
As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their…
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