I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

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• Tommy Shaw:

  Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke,

• Tommy Shaw:

  If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me bec

• Tommy Shaw:

  I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or

• Tommy Shaw:

  If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

• Tommy Shaw:

  On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic:

• Tommy Shaw:

  I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pi

• Tommy Shaw:

  I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm t

• Tommy Shaw:

  When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting

• Tommy Shaw:

  I don't like looking back.

• Tommy Shaw:

  I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.