Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn’t fair. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
Is there anything in life more exhilarating than having 15,000 people absolutely ecstatic to be seeing your human form? Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: ‘That’s why I did this. That’s why I wrote this song. That’s a good job.’ And it is a job. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. ‘Babe’ was a demo. The demo became the hit record, including all the background vocals, which were done by me. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to use those Beatles tricks in Styx records because they were sacred to me. But what they did always influenced my thinking. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for ‘Cornerstone’… they would have been on that record. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn’t feel like that, you wouldn’t do anything. Dennis DeYoung Read Quote
