Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandtis an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. He is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He has also acted in television dramas such as The Sopranosand Lilyhammer. Van Zandt also had his own solo band called Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul in the 1980s. In 2014, Van Zandt was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 November 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.
The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.
I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.
You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.
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.
Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.
I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.