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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The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.
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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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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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Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.
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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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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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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.