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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.
James Young Styx -
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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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
James Young Styx -
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
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 -
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 -
Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.
James Young Styx -
Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.
James Young 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.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
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 -
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 -
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
James Young Styx
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Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
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.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
James Young Styx -
The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
James Young Styx -
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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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.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
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 -
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 -
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