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" Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could. "

Ed Kowalczyk

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" Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Life

Inspiration

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

" We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with. "

" I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really. "

" I love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together. "

" I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday. "

" We've always been a band that questions things. "

" I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things. "

" We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV. "

" Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.' "

" Life takes turns. There are forks in the road. "

" 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! "

" We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt. "

" 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. "

" I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about. "

" All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Teeth

Want

" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Never

Matter

" 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. "

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

" I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Want

Thinking

" It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do? "

" I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics. "

" I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me. "

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