#la

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#classical #everything #get #glam #great

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#country #devil #god #handle #her

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#always #breaking #first #i #i always

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#because #i #life #my life #playing

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#language #love #sometimes #spoken #today

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#go #into #music #need #next

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. ↗

— Greg Walden

#did #electricity #i #month #much

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#almost #complex #even #exciting #great