Tom Scholz

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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.…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Tom Scholz

Music is an escape for me.

— Tom Scholz

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year…

— Tom Scholz

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

— Tom Scholz

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

— 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…

— 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…

— Tom Scholz

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

— 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…

— Tom Scholz

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information…

— Tom Scholz

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what…

— Tom Scholz

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push…

— Tom Scholz

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery.…

— Tom Scholz

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to…

— Tom Scholz

The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that…

— Tom Scholz

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to…

— Tom Scholz

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

— Tom Scholz

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

— Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they…

— Tom Scholz