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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.
- Rick Wakeman
#Country
#Devil
#God
#Music
#Truth
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.
- Rick Wakeman
#Always
#Back
#Band
#Coming
#Never
I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.
- Rick Wakeman
#Broken
#Life
#Mars
#Morning
#Quiet
I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.
- Rick Wakeman
#Born
#I Was Born
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.
- Rick Wakeman
#Bra
#Good
#Like
#Looks
#Woman
There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.
- Rick Wakeman
#Film
#Funny
#Night
#People
#Trapped
I've been married three times and divorced three times.
- Rick Wakeman
#Been
#Divorced
#Married
#Three
#Times
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
- Rick Wakeman
#Climb
#Die
#My Own
#Own
#Play
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.
- Rick Wakeman
#Above
#Class
#Course
#Great
#Writer
I joined Yes in July 1971. I had heard Yes live, as Strawbs had supported them at a gig in Hull. I thought they were amazing - incredibly different.
- Rick Wakeman
#Amazing
#Different
#Live
#Thought
#Yes
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
- Rick Wakeman
#Dad
#Income
#Piano
#Up
#Week
Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.
- Rick Wakeman
#Going
#Only
#Twice
#Two
#Years
Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician.
- Rick Wakeman
#Funny
#I Am
#Live
#Men
#Work
My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other.
- Rick Wakeman
#Colour
#Eyes
#Green
#More
#Sometimes
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.
- Rick Wakeman
#Always
#Place
#Rules
#Understanding
#Way
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.
- Rick Wakeman
#Faith
#Life
#Long
#Religion
#Respect
I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.
- Rick Wakeman
#Days
#Friend
#Loved
#Lunch
#Music
#Two
#Wonderful
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
- Rick Wakeman
#Always
#Life
#Music
#My Life
#Will
There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.
- Rick Wakeman
#Angry
#Fine Line
#Fine
#Funny
#Grumpy
#Nice
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
- Rick Wakeman
#Amazing
#Frank
#Like
#People
#Us
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