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Tommy Shaw

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

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The hole and the patch should be commensurate."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the soul."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The pleasure is there, between your expectations and regrets."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There can be a fine line between being confident and cocky."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Life is a balance between letting go and holding on."

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"Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither."

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Tommy Shaw
"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."

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Tommy Shaw
"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."

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

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Tommy Shaw
"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."

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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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"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."

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

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"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."

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