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

" We've always been just an American rock n' roll band. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director. "

" Musicals weren't on my radar. "

" 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. "

" A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage. "

" The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics. "

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

" 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. "

" I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America. "

" 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. "

" We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We play anywhere around two, 2 hours, so we're always in shape, but you've got to get yourself in super shape so you can sing that long, play that long, and feel strong. "

" Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals. "

" I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world. "

" When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character. "

" I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion. "

" We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals. "

" 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. "