Styx Quotes
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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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Rock and roll is based on pretty boys who look like little girls. The girls love them because they're not threatening. As someone who is dark and kind of hairy and whatever, I said, "I don't have a chance with that." Luckily!
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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.
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If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
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You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
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A good ERP is more than just good software. It involves an institutional commitment to connecting people, processes, and resources. This will be achieved by deploying sound data practice as part of a broader University-wide Web strategy.
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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.
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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.
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
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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.
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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.
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If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.
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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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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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I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
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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.
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Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
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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.
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Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
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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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These are the kids that are the most abused of all kids.
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The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
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So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.