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.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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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.
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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.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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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.
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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.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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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.
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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.'
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I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
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I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
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My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
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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.
