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Tommy Shaw

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

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Akiroq Brost

"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

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Akiroq Brost

"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."

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Akiroq Brost

"In the last century, everybody was singing lower."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."

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Akiroq Brost

"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

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Akiroq Brost

"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."

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Tommy Shaw
"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 a band."

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Tommy Shaw
"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 be a band member."

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Tommy Shaw
"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."

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

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Tommy Shaw
"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."

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Tommy Shaw
"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."

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Tommy Shaw
"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 hearts out."

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Tommy Shaw
"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."

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Tommy Shaw
"When it stops being fun, stop."

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Tommy Shaw
"It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time."

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