Rick Wakeman Quotes
The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
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.
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.
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.
Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.
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.
Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.
Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.
I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.
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.
I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.
