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I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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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.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
James Young Styx
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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.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
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They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
James Young Styx
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I don't like looking back.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.
James Young Styx
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I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.
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I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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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.
James Young Styx
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By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
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When he first came here, he looked like a kid who had given up on life. There was some resentment. The first three years, he still wasn't sure that he had a home.
James Young Styx
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People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
James Young Styx
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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We have 10 Super Fund sites. We do see potential impact to development if the remediation does not go along faster.
James Young Styx
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I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.
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These are the kids that are the most abused of all kids.
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