Rick Wakeman Quotes

• Success is buried in the garden of failure.

  Rick Wakeman

  Garden, Buried

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• I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.

  Rick Wakeman

  Hurt, Kids, Boys

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• Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

  Rick Wakeman

  Ocean, Bras, Tales

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• When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

  Rick Wakeman

  Play, Hiking, Funeral

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• My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

  Rick Wakeman

  Needs, Observers

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• The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

  Rick Wakeman

  Understanding, Secret, Way

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• My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

  Rick Wakeman

  Faith, Play, Long

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• 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 Pink Floyd.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• 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.

  Rick Wakeman

  Band, Coming Back, Felt

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• People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

  Rick Wakeman

  People, Zappa, Frank

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• 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. God, I couldnt handle it.

  Rick Wakeman

  Mother, Country, Truth

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• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Home, Historical

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• I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

  Rick Wakeman

  Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

  Rick Wakeman

  Garden, Cities, Annoyed

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• 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 develop to the next stage.

  Rick Wakeman

  Writing, Needs, Next

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• Ive been married three times and divorced three times.

  Rick Wakeman

  Three, Married, Three Times

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• 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 umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.

  Rick Wakeman

  Two, Umbilical Cord, Band

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• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Rick Wakeman

  Cousin, Class, Stuff

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• I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

  Rick Wakeman

  Thinking, Long, Born

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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 never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

  Rick Wakeman

  Travel, Adventure, Player

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• 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 called to do all those things, it was great.

  Rick Wakeman

  Rocks, Play, Records

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• 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 doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

  Rick Wakeman

  Two, Cheesy, Doubt

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• Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

  Rick Wakeman

  Years, Two, Left

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