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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases."
Time
"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."
Play
"I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that."
First
"I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing."
Play
"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."
Building
"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
Jazz
"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
First
"Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that."
Sacrifice
"We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album."
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"Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure."
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