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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.
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Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
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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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We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.
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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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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.
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My muse has always been the piano.
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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.
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We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
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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.
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I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.
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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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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.
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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.
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Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
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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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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.