Tommy Shaw quotes
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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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“Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.”
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“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”
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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 soon gave up instruction for self-teaching”
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“I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of”
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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'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.”
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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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“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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“Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.”
-- Tommy ShawSource : Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com. November 22, 2000.
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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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“I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road”
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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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“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”
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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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“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 have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.”
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“When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.”
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“You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day”
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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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“There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them”
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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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“I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not”
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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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“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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“If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.”
-- Tommy Shaw
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