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" I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs. "
Tom Scholz
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" I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do. "
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" The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling. "
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" The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too. "
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" Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about. "
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Want
TV
" Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. "
Tom Scholz
Wood
Seen
Mall
" I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. "
Tom Scholz
Lost
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Like
" Music is an escape for me. "
Tom Scholz
Escape
Music
Me
" When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline. "
Tom Scholz
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" I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment. "
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" The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage. "
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Moments
Live
Chance
" The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind. "
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Free
Market
Been
" I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage. "
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Music
Time
Myself
" Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything. "
Tom Scholz
You
Yourself
Gold
" If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else. "
Tom Scholz
Somewhere
Turn
I Can
" I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20. "
Tom Scholz
Guitar
Touch
Until
" I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit. "
Tom Scholz
Myself
Think
Song
" I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot. "
Tom Scholz
I Can
Direction
Me
" I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him. "
Tom Scholz
Him
Guitar
Know
" The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal. "
Tom Scholz
Listening
Experience
End
" The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound. "
Tom Scholz
You
Sound
Say
" I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song. "
Tom Scholz
Try
Never
Know
" I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do. "
Tom Scholz
Artist
I Can
Like
" I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad. "
Tom Scholz
Life
Look
Good
" All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself. "
Tom Scholz
Boston
Doing
Easy
" I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. "
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Remember
Builder
Ever
" 'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about. "
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Hope
Day
Life
" I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them. "
Tom Scholz
Music
Writing
Always
" I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced. "
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Car
Want
Radio
" If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please. "
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Harmony
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" Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while. "
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