Steven Van Zandt Rocks Quotations

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

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.

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

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.

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