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"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
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"The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks."
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"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep."
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"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."
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"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."
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"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."
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"I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around."
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"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."
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"I don't like to play the victim."
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"I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play."
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"A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter."
Thought

"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."
People

"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
Play

"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."
People

"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."
Challenge

"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
Play

"When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything."
Sex

"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
Love

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
Jazz

"I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction."
Direction
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