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"I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?"

"My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument."

"I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me."

"Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players."

"I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new."

"I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader."

"I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes."

"Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks."

"I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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