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" It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Power

Live

Walking

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" I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve. "

" If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything. "

" I would have to recommend the chorus of 'Lightning Crashes' for just about everyone that needs a little something, a little comeback. "

" What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence. "

" We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us. "

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" Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom. "

" If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done. "

" We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know? "

" From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school. "

" I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?' "

" I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas. "

" When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland. "

" Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people. "

" Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry. "

" I think the message of the Live/Counting Crows tour is that, aside from what's going on trendwise, if you dig a little, you can always find something to inspire you. "

" It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more. "

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" Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever. "

" I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing. "

" Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact. "

" All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it. "

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" As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume! "

" There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out. "

" I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route. "

" Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it. "

" Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied. "

" I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives. "

" One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time. "

" We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it. "