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On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

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.

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Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

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.

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A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

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Touring is a tough business.

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'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.

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I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

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Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'

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I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.

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I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

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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

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Chris Squire

I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.

Chris Squire

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.

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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.

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People are used to us being onstage for a while.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

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I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

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Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

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I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.

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'Drama' was put together quickly; there were a lot of intense, 16-hour days. Despite the pressure, it was a lot of fun, and the end result was an album I'm very proud of.

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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.

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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.

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I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'

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'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.

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'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.

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