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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."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
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"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden."
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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."
Doubt
"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."
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"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"
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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."
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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."
Music
"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."
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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."
Adventure
"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."
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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."
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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."
Gardening
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