Steven Van Zandt quote: "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."

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsessio...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intend...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day afte...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up th...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructu...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

I met all my heroes on the oldies circuit: Gary U.S. Bonds, Lloyd Price, Little Richard.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medi...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That le...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Sometimes there's no qualitative difference between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half hour sho...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is '...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole ne...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Netflix completely shook up the world.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about th...
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

What we have is almost like a boulder rolling down a hill. This is someone who is not going to stop ...
CLINTON VAN ZANDT

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints....
CLINT VAN ZANDT

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. ...
TOWNES VAN ZANDT

That's relatively old for a serial killer. What has this guy been doing for the last 10 or 15 years?
CLINTON VAN ZANDT

It's not normal to wake up at age 37 and decide to kill three women.
CLINTON VAN ZANDT

If they have a picture of themselves in their soccer uniform and a picture of their high school in t...
CLINT VAN ZANDT

The state of Virginia is getting the word out. Not in our state. Not to our children.
CLINT VAN ZANDT

The bottom line is you have an adult who took advantage of a child. It ought to be a slam dunk.
CLINT VAN ZANDT

But if a witness says, 'I saw a car with smoke coming out of the window after a shot was fired and I...
CLINT VAN ZANDT

There is a skeletal structure, so to speak, of certain individuals, but the clothes that we hang on ...
CLINT VAN ZANDT

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON

What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS

I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON

[10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON

Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN

I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN

This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER

Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER

Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN

News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN

Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN

It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE

That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE

It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE

a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE

Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE

My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE

There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN

I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN

We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET

I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN

She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN

Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN

It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN

You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN

We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN

I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN

It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN

It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR

The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN

I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER

Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER

The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON

Jump!
VAN HALEN

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON

I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER

has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE

First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER

Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON

They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES

It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN

I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN

Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD

The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER

We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN

Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN

Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT

The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN

I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON

We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER

So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE

An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE

Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE

The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE

The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE

Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES

The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO

The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE

Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON

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.

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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.

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