The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind. Tom Scholz More Quotes by Tom Scholz More Quotes From Tom Scholz When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline. Tom Scholz doing never music business When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so. Tom Scholz challenge singing song way I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do. Tom Scholz plan know records people 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. Tom Scholz chance moments work fun I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20. Tom Scholz until touch guitar I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two. Tom Scholz really played year two 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. Tom Scholz day cool work time