David Bryan Quotes
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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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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I believe in the American dream. I don't want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don't want anyone to ruin it, especially people who are not grateful to be here, who seemingly hate us and call us racists.
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The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.
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A great speech is literature.
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We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
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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.
