So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. Billy Sherwood More Quotes by Billy Sherwood More Quotes From Billy Sherwood I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. Billy Sherwood song two mean I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries. Billy Sherwood secretary assistants 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 labels musician ideas 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 being-yourself selfish art So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well. Billy Sherwood wells writing 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 tape littles years 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 want people 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. Billy Sherwood singers band causes 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 band goes-on morning We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada. Billy Sherwood canada lasts journey 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 vegas dad play 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 luxury bills gears I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. Billy Sherwood spectrum song people 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 boards done purpose 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 records waiting trying I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy. Billy Sherwood enjoy writing I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes. Billy Sherwood music-and-love and-love play I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. Billy Sherwood creating mind feelings 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 journey pay attention I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. Billy Sherwood musical leader father
