"When I wrote 'Critics' Choice', I was wounded because I always felt like we were coming from an honest place and that we certainly didn't feel like what was beginning to be said or written about us."

"And don't you put me down, please for creating beyond your mind."

"I'm so tired of oldies and moldies and goldies, that I want to cry"

"I think the big band album was an important step in getting us to
the point where we can release Sisyphus."

"As a matter of fact, in April, I am going to begin wading through
about 600 reels of tape that are resting in the vaults in New York in
search of out-takes and previously unreleased pieces. Also one of the
things I am going to be assembling is a Terry Kath album."

"I'm interested in all musical directions and so is everybody else in the group. We play whatever feels right; it's a musical stream of consciousness. We're highly improvisational. I'll write a tune, arrange it, figure out who needs a solo. The only things structured are some horn riffs and ensembles. The rhythm section just jams."

"I want to record the stuff and I'm willing to live with it if it sells 100,000 copies or 200,000 copies. I'd rather do that than try to totally kowtow to everybody who has an opinion on what we should be doing."

 
 

 
"And it's frustrating to meetmore people than you can possibly know. It's embarrassing to have somebody come up to you and say, hi, how you doing? And you go, hi, how are you? And you can't remember his name or where you met."

"I have a bad attitude about the idea. I don't want to know my fans. I
don't want to be friends with my fans. I don't want to know my fans by
name. I appreciate them and I'm glad they're there and they really love the
band and I understand that. But they have no objectivity as far as I can
tell. I just would like to maintain that time and space that exists between
the stage and the audience. Wherever that orchestra pit is - I prefer
keeping that distance. I just don't want to know my fans. I don't want to
know who they are exactly. I do know who some of them are and they're
terrific people and they're totally loyal and all that stuff. But there's
something about it that makes me very uncomfortable."

 
 

"We have no desire to be 'goodwill ambassadors'.  We'd much rather be representatives of America's youth."

"You may argue with the term 'revolution', but I think for those of us who were swety kids in our late teens or early 20's, that sure was a sexy word."

"Hey now will you go away we're so tired of things that you say"

"One thing record companies aren't are nice. They're in it to make
money, which I understand."

"David Foster is more than a hands-on guy; he just wants his own hands on it and nobody else's.

"Terry and Danny probably would have been in street gangs on the North side of Chicago, except they were musicians.  I was just this sort of South side guy..."

"Looking back, it was so strange. I'm not an outgoing person. At the time, I didn't take risks, especially if it meant going to the North side to meet a group of musicians."

"Chicago is the most successful experiment in group therapy ever to go down in history. There have been times when each of us wanted to walk away.... if somebody is obviously egoing out, there's six of us to deal with and we'll get together and give him a knuckle sandwich."

"We spent a dozen years with CBS and Warner Bros. Everything we suspected was wrong with big
record companies is indeed what's wrong with big record companies"

"There is a strong feeling we want to move as far away from the middle of the road that we were on, especially in the '80s.That's pretty much the manifesto. We want to get back to the side of Chicago that most people relate to, which is the first few
albums. That concept; not necessarily that sound."

"In 1995, we discovered we had recouped all the advances that Columbia gave the band in the '70s. The contract stated that ownership of the masters  then reverted to us."

"I think there was a period a few years ago when a lot of us were denying the age of the band. There was a lot of `Let's not let
on how long we've been around.' What's replaced that idea is, `We've done all this work, and we're still alive and viable, so we
ought to be proud of that."

"I think it's something most of the people would be open to. We have
certainly talked to Peter through a third party about either touring with
Chicago, or doing an appearance with Chicago, because we had heard he was interested in doing that. But it turns out he is not interested in doing
that."

"The music is the most important thing, not to know who's playing. Just listen. We'd rather not have someone else be able to say, that's the
sound of Chicago, but be pleasantly surprised that Chicago can do all these things. And we can do almost anything. We really
can."

"It was wonderful to have a world-wide No.1 record, but probably the worst thing that ever happened to Chicago."

 
 
 
 

"I've been told by one of the foremost psychics in Los Angeles that I'm psychic, I just don't know it."