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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. "

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

" Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going. "

" There's no glamour in stupid mistakes. "

" We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work. "

" We have to play 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Bad Medicine.' We have to play them, and we want to play them, and that's what we're supposed to do. It's like going to see The Beatles and them not playing your favorite song. It's not the right thing to do. "

" I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true. "

" We've always been just an American rock n' roll band. "

" It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them. "

" We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records. "

" The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics. "

" 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. "

" It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is. "

" When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character. "

" I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation. "

" Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing. "

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

" We strive to have new records. We strive to have new songs on the radio. That feels good that we can gain those new fans and still bring out our fans that have been with us for some of the ride or all of the ride. "

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

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

" 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 don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song. "