David Bryan Quotes

David Bryan

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 7, 1962

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

David Bryan

We never do the same set twice.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

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.

David Bryan

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

David Bryan

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

David Bryan

Musicals weren't on my radar.

David Bryan