86 Quotes by James Young

I’m into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

I’m a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don’t have the patience for that, I guess.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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