66 Quotes by Tommy Shaw

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

I’m not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I’m too rough on instruments.

I don’t like looking back.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

We’re kind of defined by our mistakes.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.