Tom Scholz Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.”

“I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.”

“I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.”

“I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.”

“I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.”