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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."
"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."
"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."
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
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"People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud."
"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
"It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it."
"I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing."
"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."
"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum."
"You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't."
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