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Rick Wakeman

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

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Asa Don Brown

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."

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Asa Don Brown

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

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Asa Don Brown

"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."

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Asa Don Brown

"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."

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Asa Don Brown

"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."

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Asa Don Brown

"I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years."

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Asa Don Brown

"Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse."

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Asa Don Brown

"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."

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Asa Don Brown

"I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about."

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Asa Don Brown

"Biology has at least 50 more interesting years."

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Rick Wakeman
"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."

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

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Rick Wakeman
"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."

Doubt

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Rick Wakeman
"People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits."

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Rick Wakeman
"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 Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period."

Books

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Rick Wakeman
"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."

Class

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

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Rick Wakeman
"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."

Gardening

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Rick Wakeman
"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."

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Rick Wakeman
"Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it."

Music

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