The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
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 Copy Share
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
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… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share
