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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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."

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Donna Grant

"Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head."

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Donna Grant

"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think you can contrive any sound."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

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

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Tommy Shaw
"I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of."

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

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

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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."

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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
"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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