- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Dennis Deyoung Quotes
Most Famous Dennis Deyoung Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best dennis-deyoung quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Dennis Deyoung Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Light
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.
- Happy
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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