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" At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad. "
Back
Unhappy
Now
" Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs. "
Good
Good Teacher
Children
" I consider everything I compose a gift. "
Everything
Consider
Compose
" I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play. "
Enjoy
Care
Listening
" I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it. "
Love
Jazz
Great
" If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour. "
Going
Out
Good
" If they want a photograph, then just take it. "
Photograph
Want
Then
" If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous. "
Would
Been
Disastrous
" If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids. "
Changes
Good
Parent
" I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it. "
Go
Talking
Open
" I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit. "
Credit
Done
People
" I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time. "
Love
Me
Mother
" I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg. "
Know
Rich
Man
" I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do. "
Doing
Proud
Kids
" I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. "
Only
Remember
Used
" I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken. "
America
You
Stage
" I've gone through hell and back. "
Back
Hell
Through
" I've never written a book before. "
Before
Never
Book
" I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. "
Random
Trying
Nice
" My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music. "
Kinds
German
Music
" Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with. "
Start
Over
Off
" Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot. "
First
Us
Think
" The best thing about this band is I'm the leader! "
Leader
About
Band
" There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about. "
Someone
Running
People
" They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade. "
Like
Shade
Me
" We can all put weight on or lose weight. "
Weight
Diet
Lose
" We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on. "
Younger
Looking
How
" We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result. "
End
Result
Positive
" You've got to keep things flying. "
You
Got
Keep
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