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Nov 07, 2020

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

Melody
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Nov 07, 2020

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

City
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Nov 07, 2020

Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn't been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the marines in Vietnam. I've been around to observe how the war affected his life and the problems that veterans have, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a song about Vietnam.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

If you say 'Domo arigato' to people, they're apt to go, 'Mr. Roboto.'

History
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Nov 07, 2020

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

I Feel Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet.

Goals
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Nov 07, 2020

To be successful in your life, you have to be convinced in your own mind that you have the ability to accomplish your goals.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I never wanted to be a solo artist.

Nov 07, 2020

I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing the success and failure.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have been like suing myself and I held out hope they'd ask me back. They toured under the STYX name for a year and a half before I initiated legal action. I didn't sue for money or use of the name. I simply wanted back in the band.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

We were together; we were a group; we were a team; we wanted people to love Styx.

American
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Nov 07, 2020

I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.

Nov 07, 2020

Really, the amount of work I do on a project, I will torture myself.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

Desert
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Nov 07, 2020

I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That belongs to us.' So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks - because bands, they have tricks, don't they? That's what makes them different.

Could
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Nov 07, 2020

I could forgive anybody.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't wanna be a solo artist. I wanna be in Styx.

Nobody
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Nov 07, 2020

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

Nov 07, 2020

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

Mistakes
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Nov 07, 2020

Radio stations provided a service. They weeded out the stuff that no one should ever have to even think about. Now, they made mistakes and they made mistakes with me even but, by and large, they provided a service. They were an editor.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

If there's a goal, you can't stop me. I'll put my head down. I'll have tunnel vision and I'll go until I get it.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

Getting
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Nov 07, 2020

Heck, I feel guilty getting my senior discounts.

Guitar
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Nov 07, 2020

Look, nobody is a bigger fan of Tommy Shaw than me. The day I met him in 1975 I knew he was going to be a great guitar player, performer and songwriter. I was his biggest fan, and I'm Styx's number one fan.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

I gave my life for Styx and I'm really very proud of it and I didn't want to perform that music and screw it up.

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

It's always best when everyone in the group is on the same page.

Better
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Nov 07, 2020

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all of those great 60's bands when rock was still in its' infancy.

Lucky
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Nov 07, 2020

I was lucky by birth.

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

Originally, AXS TV came to me last year and asked me if I'd be interested in doing an acoustic 'Live from the Grammy Museum' performance. But I was bound and determined to do an electric show with this great band to dispel any notion that I wasn't a 'rock guy' in Styx.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

Every Day
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

Damn
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Nov 07, 2020

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

How lucky am I? I'll go to Naperville and people will come up to me and thank me for coming to Naperville. That's how much music means to people.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

Music is magic.

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Anyone in showbiz rock 'n' roll who says they're so tired of playing their hit songs, I want to smack them. I think it's an act. Because, look, you work your tail off to get people to validate you.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I always say, when I play the first few notes and people scream... if you're tired of that, you should try retail. What else are you looking for?

Money
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Nov 07, 2020

Every artist wants to feel like they're still valid in a contemporary way. But you can't be so arrogant not to think that people who have thrown down their hard-earned money don't want to see and hear the things they want.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

It's great when it all comes together in a great musical like 'Sweeney Todd,' when Stephen Sondheim writes songs from heaven, the book is good and the staging is good. But it's very rare when that happens.

Nov 07, 2020

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care about.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

Nov 07, 2020

If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too loud.

Guitars
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Nov 07, 2020

There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality.

Nostalgia
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to see the '70s guys, if they're gonna do something, stay valid in the '90s. Then they belong. If they're trapped in the '70s, then it's nostalgia. You're not getting me in those platform shoes again.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

Meaning
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Nov 07, 2020

Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.

Nov 07, 2020

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Is there anything in life more exhilarating than having 15,000 people absolutely ecstatic to be seeing your human form?

Light
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Nov 07, 2020

I had worked so hard on three projects 1997 that it knocked the gas out of me. It was a mystery to the medical profession, but you can test positive for Epstein-Barr and not have it. When you get a post-viral syndrome, for some people it causes chronic fatigue or hearing loss. For me it became light sensitivity.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's why I wrote this song. That's a good job.' And it is a job.

Guy
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Nov 07, 2020

There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. 'Babe' was a demo. The demo became the hit record, including all the background vocals, which were done by me.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to use those Beatles tricks in Styx records because they were sacred to me. But what they did always influenced my thinking.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we continued in that direction, our career would be finished. So I kind of led the band to making 'Cornerstone,' which is an album from my point of view which was not trying to be necessarily softer, but more natural.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

This is no condemnation of Chuck Berry, who I greatly admire. But Chuck Berry's music will not translate as well to orchestration because of its very three-chord rock 'n' roll nature. It is the music of the artists that are more pretentious, pompous or closer to the kind of big dramatic stylings that orchestras are good with.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for 'Cornerstone'... they would have been on that record.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would have to do is pay the individual songwriters a mechanical royalty.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.

Challenge
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Nov 07, 2020

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes your limitations become your strengths. It forces you to create your own niche.

Nov 07, 2020

My voice doesn't sound like anyone else's. I wanted to sound like my favorite singers when I was young because when you're young you don't put much value on uniqueness. But later I realized I had something special to offer.

Nov 07, 2020

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.

Girl
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Nov 07, 2020

I wasn't a guy who grew up wanting to be in 'Funny Girl,' if you know what I mean. I wanted to be in the Beatles.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

101 Dalmatians' espouses virtues good to revisit: In times of crisis, families must pull together through love and commitment to overcome obstacles.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

People always ask me: How are you? I say I'm the envy of millions. I've been a lucky guy.

I Am What I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

Marriage
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Nov 07, 2020

My views are simple. If you're gonna make a commitment, particularly marriage, stick to it. If you can't compromise, you've got no chance.

Hands
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Nov 07, 2020

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

Marriage
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Nov 07, 2020

If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.

Nov 07, 2020

I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of testosterone badge of courage.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

Stage
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Nov 07, 2020

I wear sunglasses almost all the time except when I'm on stage.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I've lived a charmed life.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

Joy
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm proud of the body of work I was part of and I want people to enjoy it as long as they choose to.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys. I gave myself permission to do that. I set out to get people who sang with me who could make those harmonies.

Ill
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Nov 07, 2020

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

Illusion
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Nov 07, 2020

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

Career
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Nov 07, 2020

I never imagined that I would have a successful solo career, let alone one in musical theater.

Nobody Cares
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Nov 07, 2020

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was 14 years old. You become so involved in something when you start in it that young; you're doing it purely out of love of what you're doing and a belief in it.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

It took me a while to realize that the only way to really communicate with people is to give them your point of view.

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