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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."

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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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"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."

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"A good garden may have some weeds."

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