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Tommy Shaw

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

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

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"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

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"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

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

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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."

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"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."

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"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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"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

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"Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it."

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"If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for."
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"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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"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
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"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."
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"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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"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 bounds."
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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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