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Tom Scholz

American Musician

Born: Mar 10, 1947

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'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

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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

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People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing. Tom Scholz

Good People Good Thing Sake Been Convinced Growth Thing

Most people live their life around what other people do. Tom Scholz

Life People Live Other Most Around

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. Tom Scholz

Stream Seen Everybody Strip Knew Mall Replaced Wood

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

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so. Tom Scholz

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

People Records Tours Know Most Around Plan Necessarily

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

You Yourself Made Accidents Unless Musical Hundreds Mine About Weeks Put Days Hours Make Accidental Discover Discoveries Discovery Gold Where Anything Means Thing Things Position

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 detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. 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

Time Song Somebody First Feeling Engineering Running More First Time Said Came Heard Than Office Department Your Radio Drafting

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

Car Because Listen Influenced Want Radio

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

You Song Somewhere Before Club Recognize Tell Boston Noisy Know Always Hear Place Notice Even Thing Second

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

Song Problem Sometimes Try Long Bass Keyboards Back Once Hundreds Backing Guitars Long Process Lead Idea Steps Like Arrangement Go Get Where Different Process Might Forward Rough Different Things Dozens Things Start

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please. Tom Scholz

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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

I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do. Tom Scholz

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