Tommy Shaw Quotes

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• When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.
• You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day
• As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and…
• There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them
• It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords
• I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not
• If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write
• We're kind of defined by our mistakes
• By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in…
• I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their…
• I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of…
• I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road
• I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
• I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching
• I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of
• When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him…
• I don't like looking back.
• Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
• I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

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