James Young famous quotes

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

#Baby #Impact #Survival

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.
-- James Young

#Music #Play #Fans

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.
-- James Young

#Technology #Needs #Stage

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
-- James Young

#Running #Technology #People

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.
-- James Young

#Light #Shining #Musical

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

#Thinking #Crowds #Audience

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

#Energy #Pace #Littles

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

#Play #Stage

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

#Years #Care #Styx

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.
-- James Young

#Country #Past #Four

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
-- James Young

#Chicago #Stills

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.
-- James Young

#Navy #Use #Village

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
-- James Young

#Music #Rocks #Play

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.
-- James Young

#Music #Rocks #Rock And Roll

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

#Music #People #Inspired

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

#Pain #Excess

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.
-- James Young

#Rocks #People #Giving

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

#Keys #Giving #Progress

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a ***** fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
-- James Young

#Strong #Marijuana #Thinking

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.
-- James Young

#Player #Years #Piano

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
-- James Young

#Change #Trying #Suits

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.
-- James Young

#Mind #Groups #Individual

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.
-- James Young

#Discipline #Guy #Mind

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

#Music #Styx

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

#Music #Want #Matter

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.
-- James Young

#Music #Fun #Band

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.
-- James Young

#Art #Perspective #Principles