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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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"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."
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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."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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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."
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"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."
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"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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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."
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"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
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"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."
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"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
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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."
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"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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"They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer."
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