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" 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
Eat
Great
Out
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" I've been married three times and divorced three times. "
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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. "
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Devil
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" I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. "
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Short
" Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal. "
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" 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. "
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Funny
Night
People
" Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing. "
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Well-Known
Thing
Tales
" People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution. "
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Said
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" Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One. "
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Going
Left
Only
" 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. "
Rick Wakeman
Us
Band
Never
" Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative. "
Rick Wakeman
Unique
Great
Fun
" 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. "
Rick Wakeman
Cheese
Back
Done
" I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn't been to bed for four days. I don't remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it. "
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Best
Heart
Journey
" I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised race, his jockey pulled up and said there was something wrong. They put him in the grass to try and settle him but found him dead in the field. "
Rick Wakeman
Race
Train
Queen
" I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited. "
Rick Wakeman
Possible
Wherever
Use
" 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. "
Rick Wakeman
Good
Brain
Enjoy Life
" I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same facial idiosyncrasies he had: little twitches here and there, mouth and nose movements, even the way he would tilt his head. "
Rick Wakeman
Mouth
See
Way
" People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits. "
Rick Wakeman
Frank
Were
Amazing
" 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
Work
Funny
I Am
" Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds. "
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Rock
Heart
Sounds
" To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it. "
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Music
You
Play
" I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage where we couldn't live with or without each other. There's an element of truth, and I last left in 2005. "
Rick Wakeman
Yes
Marriage
Out
" There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight. "
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Me
Wrong
Gaze
" 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. "
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Cat
Broken
Life
" 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
Respect
Deep
Faith
" 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. "
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Live
Thought
Different
" I'm always writing or playing because that is my life. "
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Playing
Writing
Life
" I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot. "
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Whole
Celebrate
Love
" I am a very extreme sort of character, as I don't do things by halves. "
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Am
Things
I Am
" My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer. "
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Need
Will
Always
" My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio. "
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Professional
Three
You