A biography for Dennis DeYounghasn’t been written yet.
“I'm proud of the body of work I was part of and I want people to enjoy it as long as they choose to.”
“My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the marines in Vietnam. I've been around to observe how the war affected his life and the problems that veterans have, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a song about Vietnam.”
“I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.”
“People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.”
“After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have been like suing myself and I held out hope they'd ask me back. They toured under the STYX name for a year and a half before I initiated legal action. I didn't sue for money or use of the name. I simply wanted back in the band.”
“We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all of those great 60's bands when rock was still in its' infancy.”
“101 Dalmatians' espouses virtues good to revisit: In times of crisis, families must pull together through love and commitment to overcome obstacles.”
“Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.”
“If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too loud.”
“Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'”
“If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.”
“When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.”
“Music is magic.”
“When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'”
“If you say 'Domo arigato' to people, they're apt to go, 'Mr. Roboto.'”
“Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'”
“I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'”
“I always say, when I play the first few notes and people scream... if you're tired of that, you should try retail. What else are you looking for?”
“What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for 'Cornerstone'... they would have been on that record.”
“I wasn't a guy who grew up wanting to be in 'Funny Girl,' if you know what I mean. I wanted to be in the Beatles.”