102 Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

It's always best when everyone in the group is on the same page.

I'm proud of the body of work I was part of and I want people to enjoy it as long as they choose to.

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.

Is there anything in life more exhilarating than having 15,000 people absolutely ecstatic to be seeing your human form?

How lucky am I? I'll go to Naperville and people will come up to me and thank me for coming to Naperville. That's how much music means to people.

This is no condemnation of Chuck Berry, who I greatly admire. But Chuck Berry's music will not translate as well to orchestration because of its very three-chord rock 'n' roll nature. It is the music of the artists that are more pretentious, pompous or closer to the kind of big dramatic stylings that orchestras are good with.

Music is magic.

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.