Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Van Zandt - Page 3

From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

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.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.