James Young Quotes (46 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

    We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.


    It is our opinion the mechanism of death is due to a rapid deterioration in a diseased heart. At this time, our preliminary opinion is that the death was due to natural causes as a result of long-standing heart disease.


    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.

    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.

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

    Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

    I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

    Remember the work that they are doing and tell and them and show your appreciation, ... If you're sure you're symptom-free, and they're symptom free, hug a health care worker. And I remind you, we're health workers, too.

    It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

    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.

    So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

    We think Cyclorama - our most recent studio album - is a great record and everyone that has taken the time to listen to agrees with me.

    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.

    I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

    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.

    We're starting to see a few signs of areas of concern. I'm concerned we don't go too far, too fast here.

    Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

    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.

    Today my son is across the street running around and playing baseball with the South Brandon Little League. I remember almost nine years ago what a scary time that was. You don't forget.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

    There is absolutely no doubt that I am a more mature individual and Tommy Shaw is a more mature individual and that we learned a lot.

    I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

    We have not seen and continue not to see casual transmission in our cases. It is perfectly safe to walk down the street in Toronto.

    We're just tickled to death. It's just about unspeakable to me. It's a miracle within itself.

    We utilized the center channel to present the kick drum, snare and bass guitar tracks, as well as singer Greg Graffin's lead vocals, ... Unlike a lot of modern music mixes for 5.1, the center channel was our anchor. This mix is more akin to a 5.1 feature film mix. By mixing in the Rick Chace Theater we had the opportunity to experience the entire concert in a THX-certified dubbing stage and in a room we know, love and trust. To ensure final compatibility in a range of different environments, Brett reviewed the final mix in Mix One, our THX pm3-certified near-field room, and took a few songs on a DVD reference disc so he could also hear the final mix on the new Bose home theater system located at Epitaph's Los Angeles headquarters.

    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.

    The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

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

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

    When he first came here, he looked like a kid who had given up on life. There was some resentment. The first three years, he still wasn't sure that he had a home.

    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.

    It's our technology, with their knowledge of the preclinical side and our ability to ultimately go through the regulatory process and manufacture large quantities of vaccine that would make this marriage work.

    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 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.

    A good ERP is more than just good software. It involves an institutional commitment to connecting people, processes, and resources. This will be achieved by deploying sound data practice as part of a broader University-wide Web strategy.

    The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

    Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.


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