Tom Scholz Quotes
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There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them.
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I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.
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'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.
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I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.
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I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
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No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.
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I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.
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Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.
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Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.
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Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
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I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.
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I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.