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Quotes by Musician
"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."
"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere."
"I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years."
"I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs."
"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."
"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
"I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say."
"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."
"So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music."
"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."
"So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago."
"There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time."
"We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player."
Now,
"Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then."
"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."
"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology."
"People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things."
"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."
"And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live."
"Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy."
"But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him."
"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."
"In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation."
"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
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