Rick Wakeman Quotes

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

When I stepped up a division I can remember suffering the worst fatigue I had ever felt. I noticed it massively.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.