Styx Quotes
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It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
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As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.
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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.
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Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
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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.
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So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
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I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
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On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
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There is absolutely no doubt that I am a more mature individual and Tommy Shaw is a more mature individual and that we learned a lot.
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We think Cyclorama - our most recent studio album - is a great record and everyone that has taken the time to listen to agrees with me.
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There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
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Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.
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When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
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It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.
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I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
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Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
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We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.
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When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
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I don't like looking back.