James Young

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started. ↗

— James Young

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Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy. ↗

— James Young

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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die. ↗

— James Young

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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger. ↗

— James Young

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I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more. ↗

— James Young

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I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage. ↗

— James Young

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In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation. ↗

— James Young

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It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance. ↗

— James Young

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People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band. ↗

— James Young

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And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands. ↗

— James Young

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