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" The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind. "
Tom Scholz
Free
Market
Been
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" There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them. "
Tom Scholz
Away
See
People
" I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else. "
Tom Scholz
You
Up
Books
" There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do. "
Tom Scholz
Work
Myself
Play
" 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
" Music is an escape for me. "
Tom Scholz
Escape
Music
Me
" Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work. "
Tom Scholz
Fun
Song
Trying
" 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. "
Tom Scholz
Hate
Listen
Listening
" Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. "
Tom Scholz
Wood
Seen
Mall
" The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back. "
Tom Scholz
Song
Process
Long
" I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20. "
Tom Scholz
Guitar
Touch
Until
" I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced. "
Tom Scholz
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. "
Tom Scholz
Harmony
Enjoy
Guitar
" The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations. "
Tom Scholz
Want
Music
Live
" Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people. "
Tom Scholz
Emotional
Music
People
" 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 don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording. "
Tom Scholz
Think
Cool
Work
" 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
" I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. "
Tom Scholz
Remember
Builder
Ever
" I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!' "
Tom Scholz
Feeling
Song
Said
" 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. "
Tom Scholz
Moments
Live
Chance
" People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing. "
Tom Scholz
Growth
Been
People
" 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. "
Tom Scholz
Luck
Music
Enjoy
" I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is. "
Tom Scholz
I Can
Song
Place
" Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing. "
Tom Scholz
Crazy
People
Alone
" 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
" Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. "
Tom Scholz
More
Loose
Motive
" I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers. "
Tom Scholz
Lost
Think
Enjoy
" I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do. "
Tom Scholz
Song
Worry
Busy
" Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording. "
Tom Scholz
Music
Self
Writing
" Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them. "
Tom Scholz
Good
Work
Best