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Tom Scholz Quotes

American - Musician | March 10, 1947 -

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.

Work Live Fun Chance Moments Hard

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

Guitar Touch Until

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

Year Two Dorm MIT Really Including

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

Work Time Day Practice Cool Think

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.

Yourself Gold You Discovery Anything

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.

Guitar You Build Up Things Playing

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

Push You Know Want Editing Digital

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.

Computers You Information Lost Up

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.

Work Song Go Know Try Never

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.

Music People Luck Listening Enjoy

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!'

Time Song Engineering Feeling Said

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

Car Want Listen Radio Because

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