Billy Sherwood Quotes

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

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

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

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

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

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!

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

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.

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

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

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

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

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

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.