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Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.
— Steven Van Zandt
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
— Townes Van Zandt
I didn't make that much money ... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.
— Steven Van Zandt
You must laugh in the face of adversity. In the end, humor is the greatest weapon against the pain. The
— K. Hollan Van Zandt
Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.
— Steven Van Zandt
You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.
— Steven Van Zandt
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.
— Steven Van Zandt
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
— Steven Van Zandt
There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
— Townes Van Zandt
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
— Steven Van Zandt
I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,
— Townes Van Zandt
I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.
— Steven Van Zandt
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
— Townes Van Zandt
I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.
— Steven Van Zandt
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
— Steven Van Zandt
You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.
— 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.
— Steven Van Zandt
I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.
— Townes Van Zandt
I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.
— Steven Van Zandt
Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.
— Steven Van Zandt
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
— Steven Van Zandt
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
— Townes Van Zandt
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
— Townes Van Zandt
I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.
— Steven Van Zandt
come on mama, let's rent us a boatsail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier — Townes 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.
— Steven Van Zandt
I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
— Townes Van Zandt
It was time to call on my old paisan Steve Van Zandt.
— Bruce Springsteen
Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding
— Townes Van Zandt
We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.
— Steven Van Zandt
I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.
— Steven Van Zandt
Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.
— Steven Van Zandt
I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.
— Townes Van Zandt
Now you wear your skin like iron
— Townes Van Zandt
I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.
— Steven Van Zandt
Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.
— Steven Van Zandt
I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
— Townes Van Zandt
Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!
— Steven Van Zandt
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
— Townes Van Zandt
