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Tommy Shaw Quotes


Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

Timing is everything.

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.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

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 and sing songs.

When it stops being fun, stop.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.