Chris Squire Quotes

I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I like to collaborate on my music. The creative process is fun, and you get a lot of ideas from having discussions about it. Ultimately, the final decision is mine.

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience.

I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.

Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn't exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!

A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.