James Young Quotes
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!
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My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
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So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
