Geoff Tate Quotations

I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He developed a screenplay out of the story. It's incredible; I hope that it can be made into a movie soon. Our agency is shopping it around Hollywood. I think it's going to be an incredibly powerful film. It starts with one part, and then we have plans for a sequel as well.

At the beginning, it can be devastating. But to be honest, you learn more from a bad set than you do from a good set; if you never have a bad set, you never get better. Sometimes they just don't get you, and sometimes you have to be able to adjust.

We are sorry to lose Mark as he is a superb person, with extraordinary skill, experience and integrity. We understand corporate conflicts have arisen for Mark at his company that were not foreseeable at the time of his appointment. While we regret his decision to withdraw from the board, we nevertheless defer to his judgment as to the need to do so.

The business climate in 2001 was marked by an extreme decline in memory prices and a very difficult economic environment.

It's like a rush - but it's like a horrible drug because the first time you do (stand-up), it becomes a struggle to get it again. You just become like an addict. I feel compelled, almost, to try to do (stand-up) whenever I can because if I go too long without getting up on stage, I start to crave it.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.

There aren't any songs that I would call impossible to play live, but some are difficult. A lot of Queensryche songs are difficult to play live. It's quite a difficult question to answer because everybody (In the band) has their own opinion of what's difficult to play.

About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.

Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.