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" I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of '80s revival now. "

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" Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything. "

" 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. "

" I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion. "

" Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals. "

" Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours. "

" Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it. "

" We've been here since 1983 as a band. "

" 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. "

" There's no glamour in stupid mistakes. "

" 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.' "

" We never do the same set twice. "

" Musicals weren't on my radar. "

" I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time. "

" 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. "

" There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world. "

" I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle. "

" You start out with your eyes wide open, and you've got dreams, and we worked really, really hard, and ours came true. So - and we're fortunate enough to keep putting out number one records, and we're fortunate enough to get out there and keep playing, and we truly have a blast. "

" 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. "

" Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end. "