Quotes by Tom Scholz

About Tom Scholz:

Donald Thomas "Tom" Scholz is an American rock musician, inventor, engineer, and philanthropist, best known as the founder of the band Boston. He is also the inventor of the Rockman guitar amplifier. He has been described by Allmusic as "a notoriously 'un-rock n' roll' figure who never enjoyed the limelight of being a performer," preferring to concentrate almost exclusively on his music, and in more recent years, spending much of his time working with charities.
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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 ...

Tom Scholz

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

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

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

Tom Scholz

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

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

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 sin...

Tom Scholz

I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing...

Tom Scholz

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

Tom Scholz

I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.

Tom Scholz

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

Tom Scholz

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

Tom Scholz

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

Tom Scholz

There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Tom Scholz

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

Tom Scholz

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

Tom Scholz

Author Bio

  • NameTom Scholz
  • DescriptionMusician
  • BornMarch 10, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Inventor