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Tommy Shaw Quotes
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. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
By the time I did that third solo album, Id finally learned how to do it, but Id also learned that I liked being in a band. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
I dont like looking back. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
I dont write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
I like being on the road, living in hotels. While Ive got a real nice house, I go crazy when Im there. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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 Quotes
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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 Quotes
I wish I had a nickel for every song that Ive left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Id better be on the road, or Ill be going nuts. Im not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Im not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because Im too rough on instruments. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Ive always stuck with Gibsons. Ive had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because Im too lazy to write. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Les Pauls work out real well for me because Ill beat the hell out of them and theyll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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 Quotes
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then youre finished. Youre a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
Timing is everything. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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 Quotes
Were kind of defined by our mistakes. - Tommy Shaw Quotes
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