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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 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
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'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 £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
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