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" I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands. "
David Bryan
Who
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Up
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" Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song. "
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" We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records. "
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" I don't like it when bands don't want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that's cheating everybody, and I think it's selfish of an artist to do that. "
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" It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is. "
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" Musicals weren't on my radar. "
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" I just wanted to release an album of piano music for music's sake. I'm not expecting to sell millions of albums. It's was just nice to be able to sit down at an acoustic piano and make some music. "
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" We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs. "
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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.' "
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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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" Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals. "
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" How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better. "
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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. "
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" We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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