Quotes by David Bryan - Page 2

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.
David Bryan /
Hardest Thing
Record Deal
The Hardest Thing
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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.
David Bryan /
Love Time Good
Smiling
Tour
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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 /
Bad Times
Moonlight
Touch
Beethoven
Definitely
Sit
Sonata
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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.
David Bryan /
Albums
Expecting
Release
Sake
Acoustic
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A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait.
David Bryan /
Chords
Emergencies
Me Wait Song
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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 /
Blast
Hours
Special
Stage
Time World Look
Every Time
Forgetting
Time Look World
Packed
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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.
David Bryan /
Influence
Motorcycle
Rabbi
Huge Influence
Rode
Temple
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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 /
Band
Enough Time
Problem
Successful
Terrific
Love Time Enough
Love Time World
Became
Breaking
Breaking Up
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
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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.
David Bryan /
East
Pinnacle
Remember When
Brought
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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.
David Bryan /
Broadway
Memphis
Moon
Attend
Nominated
To The Moon
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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 /
New Songs
Radio
Records
Strive
Gain
Ride
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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 /
Broadway
Expressing
Old Guy
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The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling.
David Bryan /
Band
Composer
Good Vibes
Sitting
Vibes
Wild
Throw
Unsettling
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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 /
Band
Brain
Mentality
Sure
Free
Show
Rest
Making
Musicals
Sing
Tour
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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.
David Bryan /
Medicine
Prayer
Right Thing
Song
Favorite
Supposed
The Right Thing
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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.'
David Bryan /
Clubs
Jersey
Memphis
Midnight
New Jersey
Permit
Love Great New
Driver
Great Songs
Horn
Hour
Section
Wood
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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 /
Night
Performers
Since
Great Always World
Beginning
Problems
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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 /
Brain
Complicated
Dancing
Musical
Paper
Process
Satisfying
Stage
Music Start Your
Beasts
Onto
Piece
Unbelievably
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You start out with your eyes wide open, and you've got dreams, and we worked really, really hard, and ours came true. So - and we're fortunate enough to keep putting out number one records, and we're fortunate enough to get out there and keep playing, and we truly have a blast.
David Bryan /
Blast
Fortunate
Records
Wide
Open
Came
Eyes
Number
Ours
Putting
Start
Truly
Worked
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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 /
American Dream
Band
Bunch
Jersey
Luck
New Jersey
Practice
You Can Do It
Nowhere
Greatest Things
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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.
David Bryan /
Bunch
Fans
Half
Half Hours
Hours
Records
Stable
Twice
Change Always New
Hear
Least
Longer
New Ones
Throw
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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.
David Bryan /
Pride
Stuck
Wow
Current
Record Deal
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