Tom Scholz Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.”

“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.”

“No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them.”

“I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”