Bon Jovi Quotes
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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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There's trials and tribulations in a band.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world.
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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.
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Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish.
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I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
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Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them
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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.
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You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
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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.
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I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.
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Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.
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We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.
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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.
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We've been here since 1983 as a band.