Billy Sherwood Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Billy Sherwood:

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


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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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#094e42aa

I write on all instruments.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#e93ac555

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


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#b896a046

Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#fe30e780

I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#ddaa5da3

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


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I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#8a7a0b36

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#ba27f8b9

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#19d68176

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#f3056a85

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#21e34d87

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


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#f3166373

So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#75e2561a

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


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#cb556c86

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#a9164fc8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#16b52552

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#376e3a62

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#c31b5475

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#aede8477

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#cb189fde

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#cb7dfc32

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#ac19d34a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#9292fcd4

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
~Billy Sherwood


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#37f4c26b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#545ec225

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/billy-sherwood-quotes/#28f782e0

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