I wasn't a guy who grew up wanting to be in 'Funny Girl,' if you know what I mean. I wanted to… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I gave my life for Styx and I'm really very proud of it and I didn't want to perform that music and… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there's nothing… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. 'Babe'… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music.… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
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… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Look, nobody is a bigger fan of Tommy Shaw than me. The day I met him in 1975 I knew he was… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in.… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
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. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
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. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
To be successful in your life, you have to be convinced in your own mind that you have the ability to accomplish your goals. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
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… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was 14 years… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share
