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Steven Van Zandt Quotes

Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you may have it when you're 17 or when you're 67.

Steven Van Zandt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 22, 1950

Topics

Music People You Young Rock Old

People have the right to say whatever they want.

Matt Lauer

People Say Want Right Whatever

I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

Jeff Dunham

Work Character Think I Can Legs

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Jean Toomer

Acceptance Standards Own Our Means

As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.

Ron Johnson

Losing Long Winners Continue

I don't need to make political gestures or take steps to get re-elected.

Michel Temer

Political Need Steps Take Get Make

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Lizzy Caplan

CIA Even Online Younger Did Agent

I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

Joshua Bell

Love Home Hate Feel Three Complain

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

Dean Bakopoulos

Home Day People Book You Sometimes

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

Chris Hardwick

Sports Me Computers Comedy Play Big

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Bob Taft

Computers Connections Internet Labor

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

Music Generation Nothing Addiction

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Alice Walker

Life Me Writing Present Kind Living