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"A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."
"We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know."
"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
"I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow."
"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
"People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud."
"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum."
"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
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