Tom Scholz Quotes

Author Image

Tom Scholz

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 10, 1947

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Tom Scholz

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Tom Scholz

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

Tom Scholz

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Tom Scholz

I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'

Tom Scholz

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

Tom Scholz

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Tom Scholz

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Tom Scholz

I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot.

Tom Scholz

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Tom Scholz

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Tom Scholz

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Tom Scholz

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

Tom Scholz

Music is an escape for me.

Tom Scholz

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Tom Scholz

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

Tom Scholz

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

Tom Scholz

I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.

Tom Scholz

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.

Tom Scholz

There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.

Tom Scholz