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I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.
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I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.
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My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
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It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.
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I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
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I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.
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In my opinion, a nuclear rocket is an enabling technology for humans to go to Mars.
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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.
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There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
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Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
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So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
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So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
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So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
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There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!
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I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
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The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.
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And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.