Steven Van Zandt Quotes

Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

I didn't make that much money ... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

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.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

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 mediocre.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

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.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

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.

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

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.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.