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"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."
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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
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"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
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"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."
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"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."
Energy
"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."
Discipline
"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."
Change
"I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage."
Play
"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."
Now
"And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live."
Music
"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."
Family
"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."
Age
"Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again."
Thought
"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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