Chris Squire Quotes
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I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.
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I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.
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Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.
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We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.
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Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'
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In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.
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You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.
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I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.
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We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.
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I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could.
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Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'
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It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there.
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Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.
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'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
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I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.
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All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.
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'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.
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I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.
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The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.
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The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
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I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.
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I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'
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Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.
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A nightmare is two bassists on stage.