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
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
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
‘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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, ‘Flower Power’ – then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model. – Chris Squire
‘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
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
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
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
Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations. – Chris Squire
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
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
I think what the story of Yes has been is we’ve wandered in and out of different styles over the years. – Chris Squire
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
