Billy Sherwood Quotes
"So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Time)
"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Sense)
"So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Dad, Music)
"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."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Power)
"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."
- Billy Sherwood
"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."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Luxury)
"I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records."
- Billy Sherwood
"I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: People, Songs)
"I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Songs, Writing)
"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!"
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Work, Cause)
"I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Music, Mind, Writing)
"When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Want, Writing)
"We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Canada, Road)
"Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio."
- Billy Sherwood
"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."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Time, Years)
"So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: People, Purpose, Now, Right)
"I write on all instruments."
- Billy Sherwood
"I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Love, Music, Play)
"I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Climate, Now)
"I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Songs)
"I have always enjoyed different kinds of music."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Music)
"I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Love, Feeling, Mind, Right, Spelling)
"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
(Related: Sound)
"I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Family, Leader, Father)
"I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries."
- Billy Sherwood
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Poems)
"Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Love, Company)
"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Creativity)
"And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals."
- Billy Sherwood