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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.'
— David Bryan
I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
— David Bryan
I'm in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain't ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There's not enough time to sleep in my world.
— David Bryan
Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.
— David Bryan
I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
We never do the same set twice.
— David Bryan
When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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
I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.
— David Bryan
Musicals weren't on my radar.
— David Bryan
Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future.
— David Bryan
We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.
— David Bryan
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
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
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.
— David Bryan
We love to make records, and we love to tour.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.
— David Bryan
Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.
— David Bryan
I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.
— David Bryan
I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
— David Bryan
On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.
— David Bryan
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
Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.
— David Bryan
Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city.
— David Bryan
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
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.
— David Bryan
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
— David Bryan
My muse has always been the piano.
— David Bryan
'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world.
— David Bryan
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
We've been here since 1983 as a band.
— David Bryan
I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.
— David Bryan
We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
Any honor is an honor. You can't really say which one is better than the next, but it's always wonderful when you're honored by your peers for your work.
— David Bryan
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.'
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
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.
— David Bryan
Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.
— David Bryan
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