Billy Sherwood Quotes
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I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
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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.
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I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
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You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
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We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
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So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
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Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
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I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
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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.
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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.
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I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
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I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
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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.
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I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
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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!
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And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
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So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
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I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.
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When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
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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.
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Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
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And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.