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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
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Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
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Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.
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I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.
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'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
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I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.
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I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
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I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
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I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
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I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
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I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
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Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
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We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
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You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.
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You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
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I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.
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The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.
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We came out and kind of panicked a little bit.
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We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
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So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.