Creativity Quote by Billy Sherwood

Sherwood is doing the diplomatic tightrope walk every working musician knows: praising the other guy's kitchen without insulting your own recipe. On the surface, he is talking about studios, but the real subject is legitimacy. Vancouver stands in here for the polished, industrial version of music-making: purpose-built rooms, repeatable results, a kind of sonic “truth” that implies standards, budgets, and an infrastructure you can trust. By calling it “professional and as true,” he borrows the language of fidelity and craft, not hype, positioning himself as someone who hears the difference and respects it.

Then he undercuts any hierarchy with a carefully chosen word: flavour. That metaphor is doing heavy lifting. It reframes what could be an anxious comparison (Is one better? Is one more real?) into a matter of taste and texture. “Different sound” keeps it grounded in the sensory world musicians actually live in, while “both have their place” is the quiet manifesto: artistry isn’t a single staircase toward perfection; it’s a map of rooms with different acoustics.

The subtext is also economic and cultural. “Other studios” hints at a touring, modular music industry where recording is mobile and global, and cities develop reputations as brands: Vancouver as a turnkey machine, elsewhere as vibe, community, or improvisation. Sherwood’s intent isn’t to pick a winner; it’s to defend plurality in a moment that often mistakes consistency for quality. He’s arguing for context over dogma, and for choosing tools based on the song, not the status symbol.