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So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
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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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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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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
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I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.
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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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So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
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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'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
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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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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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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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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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So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!
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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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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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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.