Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by David Bryan
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.
Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
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.
I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.
There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.
There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.
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.
We've been here since 1983 as a band.
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.
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.
On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.
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.
We love to make records, and we love to tour.
I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
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.
My muse has always been the piano.
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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.'
We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.
How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better.
Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.
I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
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.
I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
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.
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.
I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.
I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.
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.
We never do the same set twice.
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.
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.
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.
Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.
Musicals weren't on my radar.
Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future.
I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.
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.
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.
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.
'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world.
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.
Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.
We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
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.
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.
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.
I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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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