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" My muse has always been the piano. "
David Bryan
Been
Piano
Muse
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself. "
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" I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live. "
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Live
Where
Wet
" When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go round the world with my rock band, and you can bring harmony. "
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Growing Up
Band
Rock
" 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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Song
Artist
" 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. "
David Bryan
Look
Time
World
" 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. "
David Bryan
People
Care
You
" I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it. "
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Me
Write
Good
" Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters. "
David Bryan
Black
You
White
" When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent. "
David Bryan
Sweating
Giving
Percent
" 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.' "
David Bryan
Work
Practice
Luck
" We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records. "
David Bryan
Time
Long
Long Time
" 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. "
David Bryan
America
Change
Own
" 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. "
David Bryan
You
Way
Rock
" When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it. "
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You
Hard
Just
" Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals. "
David Bryan
Most
Broadway
You
" We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs. "
David Bryan
Know
Songs
Bar
" 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. "
David Bryan
Fans
Radio
Ride
" On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands. "
David Bryan
Hands
Band
Own
" We love to make records, and we love to tour. "
David Bryan
Records
Love
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. "
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Roof
Boy
You
" 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. "
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Success
Night
Remember
" 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. "
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Therapy
Me
Good
" 'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world. "
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Memphis
Me
" We never do the same set twice. "
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Same
Twice
Never
" I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America. "
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Believe
Think
End
" I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion. "
David Bryan
Tell
Religion
Because
" We've always been just an American rock n' roll band. "
David Bryan
Band
American
Always