Styx Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

12 Styx quotes by Dennis DeYoung

Even a brief set can capture DeYoung’s lyrical spirit. These twelve lines give a taste of his thoughts on the band’s legacy, songwriting, and the emotional currents that run through their music.

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

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

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

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

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I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would…

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

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It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. 'Babe'…

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After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have…

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I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That…

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Look, nobody is a bigger fan of Tommy Shaw than me. The day I met him in 1975 I knew he was…

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When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys.…

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I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was…

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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.

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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we…

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

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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…

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Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

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If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx…

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