Quotes from Billy Sherwood


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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.


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 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!


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 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.


You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.


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.


So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.


So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.


So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.


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.


I write on all instruments.


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 think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.


I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.


I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.


I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.