Chris Squire Quotes

A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.

It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her - that's a dream of songwriting, maybe.

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.

...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Keep your head up and be patient.

I have never given up on men easily.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Never give up.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

I hope, after I'm gone, there will still be a Yes.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...