top of page
Exlpore more Self quotes

"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."

"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"

"It's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that."

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."

"Sometimes I act like I have my shit together more than I do. Sometimes I act like I don't have my shit together as much as I do. I'm done acting. I'd rather just be okay with however together my shit is at the time, and still do my best to show up, as I am."

"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."

"I have tried everything except being myself!"
Explore more quotes by Tommy Shaw


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."


"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."


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