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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."
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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."

"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."

"I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing."

"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."

"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."

"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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