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James Young Quotes

American - Musician | November 14, 1949 -

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

Smile Good People Writing Feel Good

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

Age Day People Fog Me Think

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.

Live Music People Reach Look Play

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

Performance Always Stage Something

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.

Music Day Rock And Roll Die Rock

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

Myself Energy More Little Activities

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

Thought Care Ten Years Nobody Years

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

Music Great People Great Things Tell

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

Sometimes Comfortable Hard Stage Us

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.

Music Play New Spread Fans Get

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.

Moment Past You I Can Country Know

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.

People Rock Way Others Band Like

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