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" I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver's permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece band; we had a horn section and would play great, great songs like 'Hold On! I'm Comin'' and 'Knock on Wood' and 'Midnight Hour.' "

David Bryan

Midnight

Love

Great

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" I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city. "

" We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club. "

" There's trials and tribulations in a band. "

" I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands. "

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" One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.' "

" I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience. "

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" I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience. "

" Any honor is an honor. You can't really say which one is better than the next, but it's always wonderful when you're honored by your peers for your work. "

" When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director. "

" A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait. "

" I love my band. I love to play. I love to write. "

" We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs. "

" We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people. "

" I'm in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain't ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There's not enough time to sleep in my world. "

" In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it. "

" I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands. "

" Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds. "

" My muse has always been the piano. "

" I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself. "

" It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that. "

" We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones. "

" We love to make records, and we love to tour. "

" Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish. "

" People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine. "

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" When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men. "

David Bryan

Comedy

Men

" Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters. "

" My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano. "

David Bryan

Trumpet

Father