Top 100 Squire Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.
Chris Squire
#3. The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,
each his own interest.
George Berkeley
#4. Hey kid ... Im thinking of you! Keep the faith! Youre never alone.
Squire Rushnell
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.
Chris Squire
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.
Chris Squire
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Red will be made white
Darkness shall become light
Faith will be made sight
Squire shall become knight
Bryan Davis
#15. We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.
Chris Squire
#16. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
John O'Keefe
#17. There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.
Chris Squire
#18. Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.
Charles Dickens
#19. We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.
Chris Squire
#20. I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.
Chris Squire
#21. I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire?" demanded Raoul, all innocence. "I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.
Tamora Pierce
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 'Close To The Edge,' we actually had played it from beginning to end before we recorded it in the studio. So we knew how long it was, and we knew it would fit on the album fine, so we didn't do any editing.
Chris Squire
#25. I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.
Chris Squire
#26. Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#27. Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!
Matt Squire
#28. Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)
Tamora Pierce
#29. My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!
Tamora Pierce
#30. 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
#31. I do try to say, God's will be done, sir," said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; "but it's harder to be resigned than happy people think.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'
Chris Squire
#37. People are used to us being onstage for a while.
Chris Squire
#38. 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
#39. Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'
Chris Squire
#40. We did do the whole of the live suite from 'Fly From Here,' and that was very enjoyable to do. In fact, that is actually our longest piece of music, I think, that we'd ever done.
Chris Squire
#41. Moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.
Susan Squire
#42. '90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.
Chris Squire
#43. 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
#44. I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.
Chris Squire
#45. Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.
Chris Squire
#46. Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
Aurin Squire
#47. After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.
Chris Squire
#48. 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
#49. Nay, nay!" said the Squire. "It's not so easy to break one's heart. Sometimes I've wished it were. But one has to go on living - 'all the appointed days,' as is said in the Bible.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#50. 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
#51. His squire's voice broke through the haze of rage that had settled in his head.
Melanie Dickerson
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. But the country is changing." "It's going to the dogs, I think; - about as fast as it can go." "We build churches much faster than we used to do." "Do we say our prayers in them when we have built them?" asked the Squire.
Anthony Trollope
#55. Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.
Squire Rushnell
#56. I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.
Chris Squire
#57. 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
#58. Everyone enjoys downtime at home, I'm sure, for various reasons, but I find the whole system of being out there and doing shows for people - the more of it you do, in fact the more energizing it is, for me individually.
Chris Squire
#59. 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
#60. Success is different for every artist - I get psyched when i help realise their vision etc.
Matt Squire
#61. '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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
Chris Squire
#65. I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'
Chris Squire
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Better a long life as a squire than a shore one as a soiled knight.
George R R Martin
#69. I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.
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. 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
#72. He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. '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
#78. 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
#79. On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.
Chris Squire
#80. The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.
Chris Squire
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.
Chris Squire
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.
Chris Squire
#89. 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
#90. I think it's always good for a band to try and grow.
Matt Squire
#91. When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.
Aurin Squire
#92. I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
Chris Squire
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. I hope, after I'm gone, there will still be a Yes.
Chris Squire
#96. 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
#97. The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.
Chris Squire
#98. Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.
Chris Squire
#99. I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.
Matt Squire
#100. You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.
Chris Squire
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