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Billy Sherwood

"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."

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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."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."

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A.E. Samaan

"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

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A.E. Samaan

"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

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A.E. Samaan

"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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A.E. Samaan

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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A.E. Samaan

"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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A.E. Samaan

"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."

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A.E. Samaan

"The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again."

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A.E. Samaan

"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it."

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

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

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Billy Sherwood
"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."

Sound

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

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

Love

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

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

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

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Billy Sherwood
"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!"

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

Father

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