Top 35 Quotes by Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

When it stops being fun, stop.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

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.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

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.

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.