#ay

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. ↗

— James Young

#classic rock #could #current #dinosaurs #era

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. ↗

— James Young

#certain #composing #did #discipline #gift

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. ↗

— James Young

#day #die #fans #globe #just

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance. ↗

— James Young

#excelled #our #ourselves #performance #something

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. ↗

— James Young

#concerts #destructive #excuse #gives #like

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

— James Young

#again #ago #care #ever #maybe

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in. ↗

— James Young

#band #i #i always #now #stage

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. ↗

— James Young

#already #amazing #backing #click #computerized

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. ↗

— James Young

#berry #chuck #did #gonna #got

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way. ↗

— Loretta Young

#i #little #my own #out #own