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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"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."

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

"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."

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

"I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow."

"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."

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

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

"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."
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