James Young quotes

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. (James Young)
And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started. View quote
James Young
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. View quote
James Young
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage. View quote
James Young
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago. View quote
James Young
I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more. View quote
James Young
Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again. (James Young)
I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger. View quote
James Young
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time. View quote
James Young
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell. View quote
James Young
It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance. View quote
James Young
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young
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. (James Young)
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology. View quote
James Young
So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe. View quote
James Young
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music. View quote
James Young
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. View quote
James Young

James Young

James Young - Image
Photo: Matt Becker, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: November 14, 1949
Quotes count: 25