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Tommy Shaw

"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."

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"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
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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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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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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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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'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."

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"I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song."

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"I don't go down the road of condemning."

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"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."

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"But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road."

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"I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted."

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"Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair."

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"It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me."

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"I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road."

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"The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos."

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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."

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