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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."

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Akshay Vasu

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

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Akshay Vasu

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

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Akshay Vasu

"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

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Akshay Vasu

"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."

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Akshay Vasu

"No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner."

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Akshay Vasu

"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."

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Akshay Vasu

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."

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Akshay Vasu

"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."

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Akshay Vasu

"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."

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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."

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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 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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Rick Wakeman
"I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place."

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

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Rick Wakeman
"My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other."

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

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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
"My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer."

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Rick Wakeman
"Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually."

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