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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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Asa Don Brown

"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

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Asa Don Brown

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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Asa Don Brown

"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think I sound like Barry White."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."

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Asa Don Brown

"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."

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Asa Don Brown

"This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument."

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Asa Don Brown

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."

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

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Tommy Shaw
"If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for."

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

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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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Tommy Shaw
"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."

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Tommy Shaw
"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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Tommy Shaw
"You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day."

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"I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there."

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