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Tommy Shaw
Tommy Shaw
American Musician
Born: Sep 11, 1953
Band Because Me Music Time You
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You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day. Tommy Shaw
Day You Every Day Have Fun Every Thinking Put Also Cap Your Fun
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift. Tommy Shaw
Success Creativity Gift Fickle Success Is
I don't like looking back. Tommy Shaw
Looking Looking Back Back Like
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. Tommy Shaw
You Mind Finished Joke Thinking Too Frame Once Out About Mercenary Because Then Many Start
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. Tommy Shaw
Me Sister Sit Out About Give Give Me Songs Sing Him Front Grandfather Used Porch Nickel
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords. Tommy Shaw
Time Out More Take Knew Hand Than Trying Want Hold Your Figure Fun Lessons Chords Basic
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them. Tommy Shaw
Older Side Some Town Know Got Were Them Many
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. Tommy Shaw
Music Sit Own Down Too Our Out Lazy Because Arrangements Doing Were Figure Popular Popular Music Originals Playing
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones. Tommy Shaw
Work Good Me Trouble Hell Out Good Ones Finding Only Beat Well Because Real Still Them Work Out Les
If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for. Tommy Shaw
Music Good Know Became Now Extinct
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me. Tommy Shaw
Good Me Key Guitar Stay Minor Some Tend Also Real Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Electric Electric Guitar Reason Keep Basic
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas. Tommy Shaw
Better Nuts Slippers Kind Guy Road Operas Around Pipe Going Soap Soap Operas Who Watching
When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue. Tommy Shaw
Me Song Hook Come Continue Begins Gets Legs Wanting Euphoric Keeps
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road. Tommy Shaw
Day You Out Write Tour Road Day-Out Much
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out. Tommy Shaw
Music Church Sunday First Singing Live Every Every Sunday Television Out Born Gospel Were Hearts Experiences Regional Live Music Groups Alabama Watched
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. Tommy Shaw
Me Balance Other Side Scale Out Touring Weight Songwriting Opposite Creatively
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of. Tommy Shaw
Life Dream Could Feel Like Greatest Artist
When it stops being fun, stop. Tommy Shaw
Stop Stops Being Fun
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds. Tommy Shaw
Love World Band Situation Nothing Out Solo No Boundaries Idea Stepping Boundaries Bounds Expectations Where
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. Tommy Shaw
You Rights Will Insist Sign Attorney Protected Label Certain Your Competent
Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract. Tommy Shaw
You Recording Sign Signing Know Make Sure Contract
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching. Tommy Shaw
Gave Soon Instruction Up
We're kind of defined by our mistakes. Tommy Shaw
Mistakes Our Defined Kind
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band. Tommy Shaw
Time Band Finally Solo Liked Also Learned How Did Being Album Third By The Time
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member. Tommy Shaw
Time Band Member Solo Solo Artist Felt Audience Very Artist Front Just Cemented Little Mike Stand Little Time Play

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