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Rick Wakeman

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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Akiroq Brost

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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Akiroq Brost

"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."

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Akiroq Brost

"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

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Akiroq Brost

"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."

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Akiroq Brost

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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

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

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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
"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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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."

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

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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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