Top 30 Tom Scholz Quotes

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Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was

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.
Tom Scholz
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.
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’m never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I’m just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.
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’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.
Tom Scholz
The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It’s a long process. It’s like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.
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
‘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
Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they’ve squashed stories that they don’t want the public to know about.
Tom Scholz
The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I’ll sit back and listen to it, and I’ll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.
Tom Scholz
People have been convinced that growth for growth’s sake is a good thing.
Tom Scholz
I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from ‘More Than a Feeling’ before they did ‘Teen Spirit,’ and it wasn’t very good. But in all seriousness, ‘Teen Spirit’ was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I’ll take that as a compliment.
Tom Scholz
I didn’t touch a guitar until I was 20.
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
Music is an escape for me.
Tom Scholz
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Tom Scholz
I was a fixer, a builder – an inventor – ever since I can remember.
Tom Scholz
I’m one of those artists that doesn’t actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like ‘More than a Feeling.’ After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I’m happy to do it out on stage.
Tom Scholz
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
Tom Scholz
I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I’m always going to be writing songs and recording them.
Tom Scholz
I stay very much undercover and behind the scenes – most places I go, people don’t know how important I am. But I will admit that my favorite piece of clothing to wear out is an old T-shirt from a Boston tour that does have a Boston logo. But that doesn’t change anything.
Tom Scholz
There are an awful lot of people out there that don’t want to see Boston go away, and I’m one of them.
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
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.
Tom Scholz
Everybody’s seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.
Tom Scholz
The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.
Tom Scholz
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
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 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