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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."

"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
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"I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it."

"There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about."

"I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg."

"Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with."

"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
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