I don't like looking back.
From Tommy Shaw
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.
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.
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.
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.
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
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.
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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