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I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.Collection: Steven
To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.Collection: Steven
The only reason why I made solo records was because I got so obsessed with politics, and that is quite personal. I don't really philosophically believe in solo records.Collection: Steven
I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I had decided it all comes down to one single issue: campaign-finance elimination.Collection: Steven
You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.Collection: Steven
It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.Collection: Steven
I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go.Collection: Steven
Bands should never break up.Collection: Steven
Sometimes there's no qualitative difference between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half hour shows. It's just a matter of how long you do it. It's not like the show must be three hours and 30 minutes to work. That's just not the case.Collection: Steven
This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation.Collection: Steven
I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.Collection: Steven
Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.Collection: Steven
Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.Collection: Steven
I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.Collection: Steven
I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s.Collection: Steven
Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.Collection: Steven
Netflix completely shook up the world.Collection: Steven
They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.Collection: Steven
I learned a lot from Bruce Springsteen and David Chase.Collection: Steven
People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.Collection: Steven
I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime.Collection: Steven
Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.Collection: Steven
Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.Collection: Steven
The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.Collection: Steven
Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.Collection: Steven
It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun.Collection: Steven
Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.Collection: Steven
I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.Collection: Steven
Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.Collection: Steven
I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.Collection: Steven
I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.Collection: Steven
You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.Collection: Steven
I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.Collection: Steven
I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd.Collection: Steven
Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.Collection: Steven
It's a challenge every year with a TV series. You want to keep evolving and keep it going. That's part of the fun.Collection: Steven
I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole new Golden Era of television - one being 'The Sopranos' with HBO and now with Netflix expanding that whole HBO concept to the world and making it more of a global thing. It's been wonderful to witness that from those two vantage points.Collection: Steven
I was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.'Collection: Steven
The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.Collection: Steven
Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.Collection: Steven
'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.Collection: Steven
For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.Collection: Steven
'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.Collection: Steven
Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or four years of my life, and all of my musical energy went into that.Collection: Steven
For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing.Collection: Steven
Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.Collection: Steven
Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements.Collection: Steven
My father was an ex-Marine Goldwater Republican.Collection: Steven
When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.Collection: Steven
Say what you want about George W. Bush, but the guy is a man's man. He means what he says, and he says what he means. Whether you agree with the Texan or not, at least one always knows where they stand with him.Collection: Steven