James Young Quotes
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The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.
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We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.
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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
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I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.
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Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
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And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.
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I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.
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And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
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I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
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There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
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The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.
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But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
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Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
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So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
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The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.
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Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
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They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
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All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
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It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.
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I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
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You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
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Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
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We just have to be ourselves.
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In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
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We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
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We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
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I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.
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So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
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