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"Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy."
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"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."
"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."
"Do not indulge your weaknesses!"
"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"
"The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!"
"Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts."
"Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent."
"Only a changed person can live according to the law."
"Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit."
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"People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band."
"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."
"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."
"We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player."
"Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction."
"And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live."
"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."
"But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die."
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