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> [Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/trying-to-get-my-music-performed-live-by-bar-bands-was-a-self/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

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> [Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/playing-live-was-always-definitely-a-lot-more-fun-you-picture-it/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

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## Other authors on Along

## More by Tom Scholz

> [We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/we-need-a-free-media-not-just-freedom-of-speech/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-don-t-like-the-idea-of-having-to-reproduce-a-recorded-song-live/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/virtually-every-magazine-newspaper-tv-station-and-cable-channel-is/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I'm certainly aware of the fans. I'm always hoping that what I'm doing is something they'll like, because I do appreciate them. But, no,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-m-certainly-aware-of-the-fans-i-m-always-hoping-that-what-i-m-doing/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-m-a-total-rink-rat-i-can-do-the-toe-loop-the-lutz-a-flip-and-the/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-don-t-work-out-a-lead-section-and-practice-it-for-a-day-and-then/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I'm going to say this as an ethereal effect, not something that people are necessarily aware of while it's happening, but my theory is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-m-going-to-say-this-as-an-ethereal-effect-not-something-that-people/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [Music is an escape for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/music-is-an-escape-for-me/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-played-in-a-couple-of-really-crummy-bands-including-one-in-the-dorm/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-didn-t-touch-a-guitar-until-i-was-20/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/the-public-has-been-sold-a-bill-of-goods-about-the-free-market-being/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-m-never-too-ambitious-when-i-go-into-the-studio-i-always-know-that/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/if-things-aren-t-going-well-music-is-what-i-turn-to-so-i-can-get-away/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/i-was-a-fixer-a-builder-an-inventor-ever-since-i-can-remember/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

> [There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-scholz/there-aren-t-a-lot-of-cover-bands-that-do-boston-material-or-do-it/)

[Tom Scholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-scholz/)

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