James Young Quotes

• You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say – at least for the moment – a thing of the past – from what I can tell.

  James Young

• Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

  James Young

• Whereas with us – what you hear is what’s happening right then and there on the stage – so we don’t need no stinking technology.

  James Young

• We’re gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we’ve got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry’s piano player.

  James Young

• We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant – it seems to me.

  James Young

• 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.

  James Young

• The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

  James Young

• The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

  James Young

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  James Young

• Being in a rock band is about touring. It’s about writing songs and it’s about making records but it’s also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  James Young

• Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

  James Young

• Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

  James Young

• So, We’re really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

  James Young

• So, maybe you don’t see blues so much in Styx’s music but it is definitely part of Tommy’s early music.

  James Young

• So, it’s a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

  James Young

• Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

  James Young

• People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

  James Young

• 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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Birth:	14th November, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

James V. "J.Y." Young was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who is best known for playing lead guitar in the American rock band, Styx. In 1970, he joined the band TW4 while a student at Illinois Institute of Technology, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. After Styx's initial breakup in 1983, he released the solo albums City Slicker(with Jan Hammer), Out on a Day Pass, and Raised by Wolves(with James Young Group). He is best known for "Miss America" and "Snowblind". He managed the Chicago, Illinois -based rock band 7th Heaven in 1998 along with Alec John Such of the band Bon Jovi.

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