M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Get your players on who can unlock the door and sooner or later they will break the door down

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.