Top 86 A Squire Quotes
#1. I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.
Kevin Costner
#2. Kiggs. "You were just a squire when they were banished; technically, you weren't banished at all." Maurizio
Rachel Hartman
#3. Better a long life as a squire than a shore one as a soiled knight.
George R R Martin
#4. 'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down.
Chris Squire
#5. The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
Chris Squire
#6. Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.
Matt Squire
#7. You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.
Chris Squire
#8. It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time ... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.
Chris Squire
#9. I hope, after I'm gone, there will still be a Yes.
Chris Squire
#10. In many ways I think 'Fly From Here' is a return to classic Yes; people seem to have been really enjoying it, integrated into the set along with the old material.
Chris Squire
#11. When someone's lost, aimless and adrift
Take the time, give 'em a lift
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
But today, you can be their gift.
Squire Rushnell
#12. I think it's always good for a band to try and grow.
Matt Squire
#13. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
Miguel De Cervantes
#14. Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.
Chris Squire
#15. The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.
Chris Squire
#16. I was working in a music store in London, and this particular place happened to be the importers for Rickenbacker guitars into England. So I started seeing these basses coming in.
Chris Squire
#18. The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.' ... They come back, and other people come in.
Chris Squire
#19. Septon Cellador spoke up. "This boy Satin. It's said you mean to make him your steward and squire, in Tollett's place. My lord, the boy's a whore ... a ... dare I say ... a painted catamite from the brothels of Oldtown." And
George R R Martin
#20. On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.
Chris Squire
#21. It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there.
Chris Squire
#22. 'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.
Chris Squire
#23. I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.
Chris Squire
#24. Because of all the various people who've come in and out and brought along ideas, I've been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that's been involved has influenced me as well. And I'm grateful for that.
Chris Squire
#25. Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'
Chris Squire
#26. The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm.
George Eliot
#27. I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.
Chris Squire
#28. In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.
Chris Squire
#29. Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
Aurin Squire
#31. I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.
Chris Squire
#32. The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#33. 'Drama' was put together quickly; there were a lot of intense, 16-hour days. Despite the pressure, it was a lot of fun, and the end result was an album I'm very proud of.
Chris Squire
#34. Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.
Chris Squire
#35. Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.
Chris Squire
#36. I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.
Chris Squire
#37. The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.
Washington Irving
#38. but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence,
Jane Austen
#39. It's always a little more difficult after taking a few years off, which we did from 2004 through 2008. It's more difficult to get the machine in gear again, but when you become used to it, then it becomes easier.
Chris Squire
#40. Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
Chris Squire
#41. I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.
Chris Squire
#42. Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot ... but then it doesn't.
Chris Squire
#43. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
Robert Barr
#44. When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.
Tamora Pierce
#45. Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!
Matt Squire
#46. People are used to us being onstage for a while.
Chris Squire
#47. I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'
Chris Squire
#48. In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete
from TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses
Matt Squire
#49. It's been a long time since we've been out there playing new material, and we have really enjoyed that. Of course we still enjoy playing the Yes standards as well, but it's great to have a bit of a challenge and pull off new material.
Chris Squire
#50. I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.
Chris Squire
#51. I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.
Chris Squire
#52. In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.
Chris Squire
#53. Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!
Matt Squire
#54. I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.
Chris Squire
#55. Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.
Squire Rushnell
#56. All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.
Chris Squire
#57. We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.
Chris Squire
#58. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
John O'Keefe
#59. I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.
Matt Squire
#60. Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs ... you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice incredulous.
He laughed. "I would."
She smiled. "You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell
me another lie.
Julie Garwood
#61. I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.
Chris Squire
#62. There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.
Chris Squire
#63. Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.
Chris Squire
#64. And over my head," relates Squire Haligast, "it form'd an E-clipse, an emptiness in the Sky, with a Cloud-shap'd Line drawn all about it, wherein words might appear, and it read, - 'No King . . .
Thomas Pynchon
#65. I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
Matt Squire
#66. 'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
Chris Squire
#67. Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.
Orson Squire Fowler
#68. He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#69. I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could.
Chris Squire
#70. Her Squire, Celena, Ms. Blood Rite, I-kill-anything-that-breaks-formation, is on her way over here to have a word with you. Since Celena isn't real big on conversation, I'm taking that as a euphemism for 'kick your ass.' (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. What are you? (Danger)
Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. No m'lord. It wouldn't be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence.
Gary Edward Gedall
#73. I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'
Chris Squire
#74. Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
Chris Squire
#75. Thin rays of orange creep up Tower Bridge and I realize I have never seen the sunrise from here. I had no idea that it could rise, almost perfectly, between the two towers of the bridge. This new light is a new day, and Timothy Squire and I watch it together.
John Owen Theobald
#76. Pooh! away with love! Nay, my dear, we loved each other so dearly we should never have been happy with any one else; but that's a different thing. People aren't like what they were when we were young. All the love nowadays is just silly fancy, and sentimental romance, as far as I can see.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#77. Not many people know this, but when Yes first started doing club dates back in 1968, '69, we did a few tracks from 'The Magic Garden' album in our set. We just loved the harmonies that the 5th Dimension had as well.
Chris Squire
#78. With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Chris Squire
#79. Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and pretends it's all civility and humility; but I can tell when he's giving me a pill.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#80. I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.
Chris Squire
#81. AT THE SOUND of the bell, Sir John forgot all ills. "Squire Shallow," he shouted merrily, "the lunch bell calls. Come along and don't forget to bring the bottle of sack. We shall share a celebratory glass over the wizard's hide. High Ho! Off to R-O-O-O-ASTING a wizard we must go!
Sully Tarnish
#82. The other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts, and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.
Chris Squire
#83. There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.
Kurt Squire
#84. Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
Aurin Squire
#85. Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.
Matt Squire
#86. Moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.
Susan Squire
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