Sometimes your limitations become your strengths. It forces you to create your own niche. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn’t been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the marines in Vietnam. I’ve been around to observe how the war affected his life and the problems that veterans have, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a song about Vietnam. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
If you pretend to be somebody that you’re not when you write songs – and I did that on some of the early Styx albums – nobody cares about what you have to say. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
Anyone in showbiz rock ‘n’ roll who says they’re so tired of playing their hit songs, I want to smack them. I think it’s an act. Because, look, you work your tail off to get people to validate you. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
People always ask me: How are you? I say I’m the envy of millions. I’ve been a lucky guy. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
