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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it. "

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

" 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. "

" We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time. "

" I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one night, I'd want a hit. I want to hear the songs that brought them to that pinnacle of success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 never do the same set twice. "

" 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. "