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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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Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
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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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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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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
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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 don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
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I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
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I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
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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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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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My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
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They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.
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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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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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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'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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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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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 mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
