--- title: "Best Steven Van Zandt Quotations" description: "Steven Van Zandt, also called Little Steven, is an American musician and actor who plays guitar in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b091/author-steven-van-zandt-3490.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b091/author-steven-van-zandt-3490.jpg) # Steven Van Zandt (1950) Singer United States **129** quotes in **745** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Steven Van Zandt is a singer from the United States, best known for *Unrequited Infatuations*. ## Quick Facts About Steven Van Zandt Born November 22, 1950 Nationality United States Profession Singer Notable works Unrequited Infatuations Spouse Maureen Van Zandt ## About Steven Van Zandt He is also known as Miami Steve and leads the solo band Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, which has been active off and on since the 1980s. On television he played Silvio Dante in The Sopranos from 1999 to 2007 and Frank Tagliano, also called “Johnny” Henriksen, in Lilyhammer from 2012 to 2014. ## Awards & Honors Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series New Jersey Hall of Fame Golden Nymph for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy TV Series ## Quotes by Steven Van Zandt · Page 4 > [I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/i-was-deep-into-it-worldwide-liberation-politics-as-well-as-domestic/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Campaign finance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/campaign-finance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/steven-van-zandt-3490_campaign-finance_i-was-deep-into-it-worldwide-liberation_1861274.png) > [Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/garage-rock-is-music-for-older-people-with-young-souls-and-young/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/steven-van-zandt-3490_garage_garage-rock-is-music-for-older-people-wi_604269.png) > [For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/for-those-who-are-familiar-with-my-work-soulfire-is-a-return-to-how/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/steven-van-zandt-3490_how_for-those-who-are-familiar-with-my-work_2499936.png) > [You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/you-ask-people-to-fall-in-love-with-you-to-need-you-to-want-you-to/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/steven-van-zandt-3490_break_you-ask-people-to-fall-in-love-with-you_1217074.jpg) > [A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/a-lot-of-the-idealism-of-the-sixties-was-spot-on-from-the/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Civil rights](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civil-rights/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/427/steven-van-zandt-3490_civil-rights_a-lot-of-the-idealism-of-the-sixties-was_2995522.png) > [Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/politics-in-general-when-you-re-trying-to-change-the-world-for-the/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fd/steven-van-zandt-3490_better_politics-in-general-when-you-re-trying-t_1743110.png) > [We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/we-never-understood-the-concept-of-people-going-onstage-and-giving/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blue/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/steven-van-zandt-3490_blue_we-never-understood-the-concept-of-peopl_1318962.png) > [Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/believe-me-if-donald-trump-didn-t-have-some-point-that-he-s-making/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/steven-van-zandt-3490_believe_believe-me-if-donald-trump-didn-t-have-s_1186379.png) > [I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/i-know-what-it-takes-to-make-a-band-how-they-should-interact-what/) [Steven Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/230/steven-van-zandt-3490_band_i-know-what-it-takes-to-make-a-band-how_1620501.png) ## Steven Van Zandt by topic [Song (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/song/steven-van-zandt/) [People (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/steven-van-zandt/) [World (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/steven-van-zandt/) [Time (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/steven-van-zandt/) [Politics (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/steven-van-zandt/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-van-zandt/#itemlist", "name": "Steven Van Zandt Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Steven Van Zandt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-van-zandt/i-was-deep-into-it-worldwide-liberation-politics-as-well-as-domestic/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/steven-van-zandt-3490_campaign-finance_i-was-deep-into-it-worldwide-liberation_1861274.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/steven-van-zandt-3490_campaign-finance_i-was-deep-into-it-worldwide-liberation_1861274.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/steven-van-zandt-3490_campaign-finance_i-was-deep-into-it-worldwide-liberation_1861274.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I had…” — Steven Van Zandt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. 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