Rick Wakeman Quotes

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• My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you…
• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of…
• My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
• Ive been married three times and divorced three times.
• Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western.…
• Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra,
• When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created…
• The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
• Success is buried in the garden of failure.
• I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens…
• But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no…
• Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.
• But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get…
• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter.…
• I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.
• I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.
• Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.
• Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an…
• People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
• The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can…

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