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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.
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Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.
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I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
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Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
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I think if humans are really going to explore the solar system, or go beyond our immediate neighborhood, we are going to have to go with nuclear power. Nuclear power really is the development of the steam ship compared to sailing ships.
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You have a growing network and the computers need to be advanced. Most counties have a network administrator and staff.
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I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.
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Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.
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To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.
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I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
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I write on all instruments.
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I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.
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Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.
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We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.
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Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
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'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.
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Large companies from out-of-state still look at the Mormon factor and wonder if they can conduct business here. But with the Provo Airport gearing up, and if we get regular scheduled flights, that would help our growth.
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Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.
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I was working in a music store in London, and this particular place happened to be the importers for Rickenbacker guitars into England. So I started seeing these basses coming in.
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Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.
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The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me.
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We did do the whole of the live suite from 'Fly From Here,' and that was very enjoyable to do. In fact, that is actually our longest piece of music, I think, that we'd ever done.
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Its because it is about playing music together and enjoying it. Other groups are so caught up in getting from this point to that point, not the music. This is about the music. Collectively we have the maturity to handle this and see it through now.