James Young Quotations

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

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.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.