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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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Donna Grant

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

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Donna Grant

"I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'"

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Donna Grant

"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."

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Donna Grant

"I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character."

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Donna Grant

"Everybody has fights with their sister."

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Donna Grant

"When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister."

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Donna Grant

"It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in."

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Donna Grant

"It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan."

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Donna Grant

"And my little sister died when she was 16."

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Tommy Shaw
"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."

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Tommy Shaw
"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."

Success

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

Life

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

Music

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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."

Sound

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Tommy Shaw
"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."

Guitar

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Tommy Shaw
"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."

Mind

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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."

Balance

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

Singing

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Tommy Shaw
"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."

Work

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