10 top steven van zandt quotes
- 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.
- The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.
- 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.
- Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.
- My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
- Like most people, I’ve always felt using words like ‘best’ when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
- 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.
- I’m not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It’s strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.
- I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it’s a band – everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.
- Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
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