American - Musician | November 22, 1950 -
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.
Steven Van Zandt
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You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.
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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 long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.
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I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go.
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Bands should never break up.
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This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation.
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I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.
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Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.
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Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.
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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 believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s.
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Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.
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