James Young

Professions :

Born :

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 song happiness

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

impact survival baby

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 fans play

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.

rocks giving people

We just have to be ourselves. by James Young

We just have to be ourselves.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great t... by James Young

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

inspired music people

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the glo... by James Young

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

music matter want

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.

rock-and-roll rocks music

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

ambitious should

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

discipline guy mind

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

records internet way

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

individual groups mind

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

perspective principles art

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.

marijuana strong thinking

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many... by James Young

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

worst crazy way

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

piano player years

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

suits change trying

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

navy village use

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