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.

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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

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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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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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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

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You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

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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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If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

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