74 Quotes by Rick Wakeman

My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other.

I have done quite a diverse amount of music, and some were not always of my choosing - although I always give it my best professional attention.

I cut out bread, I don't eat after 6 P.M., and I go on walks, and it's had a great effect.

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.

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.

Hold it a minute. This is what everybody is doing at home. Why aren't we doing it for them?

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.

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered she had breast cancer and passed away the next year. But if she'd had a check two years before, they could have done something about it, they could have saved her.