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Tommy Shaw [1953-0] American

Rank: 102
Musician, Guitarist

Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and performer best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups including Damn Yankees, Shaw Blades as well as released several solo albums and he is not just a rhythm guitarist, but also a capable lead guitarist.

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You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.		101
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.	Success	102
Timing is everything.		103
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.		104
I don't like looking back.		105
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.		106
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.		107
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.		108
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.		109
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.		110
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.		111
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.		112
If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.		113
I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.		114
When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.		115
I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.		116
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.		117
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.		118
We're kind of defined by our mistakes.		119
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.		120
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.		121
When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.		122
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.		123
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.		124
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.		125
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.		126
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.		201
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.		202
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.		203
When it stops being fun, stop.		204
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.		205
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.		206
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.		207
Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.		208
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.		209
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.		210

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