Quotes by Billy Sherwood - Page 1

I write on all instruments.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Instruments
I Write Write
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I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Different
Different Kinds
Enjoyed
Kind
Music Always Different
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I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Enjoy
Writing
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So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Classic
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I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
People
Song
Spectrum
Lots
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Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Groove
Sometimes
Studios
Drum
Studio
Rush
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So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Wells
Writing
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I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Records
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I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Assistants
Secretary
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I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Mean
Minutes
Song
Two
Beatles Songs
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I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Assistants
Secretaries
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I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Air
Supply
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So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Purpose
People Right Now
Studio
Served
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And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Endless
Door
Shut
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I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Functional
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We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Journey
Canada
Lasts
Tour
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And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Individuals
Material
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
New Music
Commercial
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I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
And Love
Music And Love
New Music
Play
Love Music New
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Band
Father
Leader
Musical
Records
Big Band
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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 / Musician
Good And Bad
Ideas
Labels
Musician
No Idea
Good I Am Bad
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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 / Musician
Dad
Band
Guy
Music Dad Always
Big Band
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When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Click
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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 / Musician
Combination
Creating
Feelings
Lyrical
Mind
Spelling
Pictures
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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.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Journey
Attention
Pay
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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.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Band
Causes
Singers
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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.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
People
Want
World
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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 / Musician
Morning
Band
Goes On
Work Morning Me
Studio
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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 / Musician
Amazing Things
Boards
Done
Purpose
Technicians
Board
Deliver
Purposes
Studio
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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 / Musician
Littles
Tape
Years
In-Between
Producing
Studio
Whenever
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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 / Musician
Album
Hit Record
Major
Label
Likely
Major Label
Picked
Smash
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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 / Musician
Analogue
Bills
Digital
Effects
Gears
Hardcore
Luxury
Stuck
Gear
Mine
Owning
Rent
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Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Art
Being Yourself
Selfish
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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 / Musician
Studios
Vancouver
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I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Records
Trying
Waiting
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I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.
Billy Sherwood / Musician
Dad
Play
Vegas
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