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Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness. — John Flavel

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

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited. — Rick Wakeman

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first. — Rick Wakeman

Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo! — Tara Adams

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. — Rick Wakeman

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

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing. — Rick Wakeman

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds. — Rick Wakeman

Success is buried in the garden of failure. — Rick Wakeman

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

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One. — Rick Wakeman

I've been married three times and divorced three times. — Rick Wakeman

I am a very extreme sort of character, as I don't do things by halves. — Rick Wakeman

I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot. — Rick Wakeman

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

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! — Rick Wakeman

My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost Â£2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income. — Rick Wakeman

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. — Rick Wakeman

I cut out bread, I don't eat after 6 P.M., and I go on walks, and it's had a great effect. — Rick Wakeman

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

'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

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny. — Rick Wakeman

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses. — Theodore Parker

Read ebooks. Trees are paper thin. — Malla Duncan

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

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language. — Miguel

He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. — Kate Morton