James Young Quotes

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.

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.

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We just have to be ourselves.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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