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"I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
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"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."

"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."

"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

"Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack."

"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."

"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."
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