Yes Quotes

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

Chris Squire Yes

• Life
• Great
• Interesting

They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.

John Roy Anderson Yes

• Satisfaction
• Customer

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

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Music
• Live

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Chris Squire Yes

• Work
• Style

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.

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Up
• Different
• True

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

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Music
• Guy
• Dad

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Long

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Door
• Creativity

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

John Roy Anderson Yes

• Giving
• Years
• Venture

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

Billy Sherwood Yes

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

John Roy Anderson Yes

• Dream
• Relationship
• Eyes

This state of independence shall be!

John Roy Anderson Yes

• Independence
• States

The demand is going to come later and be stretched over an extended period of time.

John Roy Anderson Yes

• Time
• Period
• Demand

The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.

Chris Squire Yes

• Time
• Music
• Interesting

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Bill Bruford Yes

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Bill Bruford Yes

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

John Roy Anderson Yes

• People
• Fashion
• Bored

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

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Band

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

Bill Bruford Yes

• People

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

Billy Sherwood Yes

Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

Chris Squire Yes

• Good
• Worry

I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.

Peter William Brockbanks Yes

• Good
• Feeling
• Guilty

I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing.

Peter William Brockbanks Yes

• Done

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

Billy Sherwood Yes

• Writing