Steven Van Zandt Quotes
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.Steven Van Zandt
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar -
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
Ted Sarandos -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
Olivia Wilde
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
Ramana Maharshi -
Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.
Vic Willis -
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
Valerie June -
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge -
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith -
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
Ha-Joon Chang
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
Barry McGuire -
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey -
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
Irving Azoff -
Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
Karan Mahajan -
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi -
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
Tagg Romney
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
Damien Chazelle -
I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
Niki Taylor -
I know there are thousands of images of me.
Stevie Wonder -
Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living.
L. Ron Hubbard -
When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
Sean Harris -
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.
Steven Van Zandt