"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."

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"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."

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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."

Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor

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"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."

Chet Baker, American Musician

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"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."

Jules Shear, American Musician

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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

August Wilson, American Playwright

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"To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers."

Years

"Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste."

Name

"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."

Freedom

"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."

Learning

"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

Fire

"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."

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"So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."

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"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."

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"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."

Years

"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers."

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