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Tom Scholz Quotes

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it’s to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It’s actually more than that, though. I wouldn’t want to make a record that didn’t live up to my expectations.

– Tom Scholz

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

– Tom Scholz

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won’t be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don’t discover anything.

– Tom Scholz

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

– Tom Scholz

I take chances. I don’t limit myself. I don’t think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song ‘Sail Away.’ But that’s what fit.

– Tom Scholz

Everybody’s seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

– Tom Scholz

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.

– Tom Scholz

People have been convinced that growth for growth’s sake is a good thing.

– Tom Scholz

‘Higher Power’ was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It’s a very, very tough thing – very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

– Tom Scholz

I was a fixer, a builder – an inventor – ever since I can remember.

– Tom Scholz

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

– Tom Scholz

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

– Tom Scholz

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.

– Tom Scholz

I’m a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.

– Tom Scholz

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest – I couldn’t read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

– Tom Scholz

I didn’t touch a guitar until I was 20.

– Tom Scholz

I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it’s in a noisy place. I can hear that it’s Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it’s Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

– Tom Scholz

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren’t supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

– Tom Scholz

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

– Tom Scholz

There aren’t a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I’ve managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.

– Tom Scholz

I heard ‘More Than A Feeling’ for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, ‘Your song’s on the radio in the drafting department!’

– Tom Scholz

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.

– Tom Scholz

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