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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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I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.
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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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We love to make records, and we love to tour.
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I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.
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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.
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We've been here since 1983 as a band.
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I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
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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.
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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.
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I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
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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.
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There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.
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Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will learn from them all. You'll learn about the world at large and about other people but most important, you'll learn about yourself.
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There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.
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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.
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We play anywhere around two, 2 hours, so we're always in shape, but you've got to get yourself in super shape so you can sing that long, play that long, and feel strong.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
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We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
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I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
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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.