A biography for Chris Squirehasn’t been written yet.
“'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.”
“Because of all the various people who've come in and out and brought along ideas, I've been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that's been involved has influenced me as well. And I'm grateful for that.”
“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.”
“You're only as big as your last hit.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.”
“I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.”
“The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.”
“On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.”
“People are used to us being onstage for a while.”
“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.”
“We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.”
“Everyone enjoys downtime at home, I'm sure, for various reasons, but I find the whole system of being out there and doing shows for people - the more of it you do, in fact the more energizing it is, for me individually.”
“I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.”
“We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.”
“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.'”