90 Quotes by David Bryan

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.

We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.

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've been here since 1983 as a band.

I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.

When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

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.

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.