Quotes by Billy Sherwood

• You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
• So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
• So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
• So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
• So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
• It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.
• I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
• I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
• I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
• I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
• So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!
• I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
• When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
• We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
• Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
• So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.
• So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.
• I write on all instruments.
• I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
• I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.
• I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
• I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
• I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.
• I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.
• I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
• I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
• I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
• Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
• And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
• And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.