Rick Wakeman Quotes

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I remember when I was younger I used to sing that Beatles song, 'When I'm 64', and think that's light years away for me - I was 18 when it came out. Now here I am.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

But where are the snows of yester year?

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.