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" We love to make records, and we love to tour. "
David Bryan
Records
Love
Tour
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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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" 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. "
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" My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano. "
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" 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.' "
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" I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself. "
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" I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world. "
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" The Broadway run of 'Memphis' has been like going to the moon. It was so great to actually open at the Shubert Theatre and then amazing to be nominated for eight Tonys and attend all the luncheons and events. "
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" 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. "
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" There's no glamour in stupid mistakes. "
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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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Music
" 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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" 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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" In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation. "
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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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" 'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world. "
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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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Midnight
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" Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain. "
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" Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head. "
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" 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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" 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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" It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them. "
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" We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people. "
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" Musicals weren't on my radar. "
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" I love my band. I love to play. I love to write. "
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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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" We don't want to just be known for what we did. We want to be known for what we do and what we did. We've been highly productive since 2000 when 'Crush' came out. "
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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 grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion. "
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Religion
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" I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle. "
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