James Young Quotes

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

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.

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.

We just have to be ourselves.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

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.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

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.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

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.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

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.

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

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.