QUOTES by Dennis DeYoung
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How lucky am I? I'll go to Naperville and people will come up to me and thank me for coming to Naperville. That's how much music means to people.
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I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.
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I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.
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The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.
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It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.
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When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.
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We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all of those great 60's bands when rock was still in its' infancy.
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There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.
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I gave my life for Styx and I'm really very proud of it and I didn't want to perform that music and screw it up.
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The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.
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Look, nobody is a bigger fan of Tommy Shaw than me. The day I met him in 1975 I knew he was going to be a great guitar player, performer and songwriter. I was his biggest fan, and I'm Styx's number one fan.
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Radio stations provided a service. They weeded out the stuff that no one should ever have to even think about. Now, they made mistakes and they made mistakes with me even but, by and large, they provided a service. They were an editor.
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If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.
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I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That belongs to us.' So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks - because bands, they have tricks, don't they? That's what makes them different.
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I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'
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I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.
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We were together; we were a group; we were a team; we wanted people to love Styx.
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After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have been like suing myself and I held out hope they'd ask me back. They toured under the STYX name for a year and a half before I initiated legal action. I didn't sue for money or use of the name. I simply wanted back in the band.
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I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing the success and failure.
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To be successful in your life, you have to be convinced in your own mind that you have the ability to accomplish your goals.
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My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the marines in Vietnam. I've been around to observe how the war affected his life and the problems that veterans have, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a song about Vietnam.
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Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn't been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable.
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I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.
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Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'
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Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.
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If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.
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Originally, AXS TV came to me last year and asked me if I'd be interested in doing an acoustic 'Live from the Grammy Museum' performance. But I was bound and determined to do an electric show with this great band to dispel any notion that I wasn't a 'rock guy' in Styx.
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Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.
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Anyone in showbiz rock 'n' roll who says they're so tired of playing their hit songs, I want to smack them. I think it's an act. Because, look, you work your tail off to get people to validate you.
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