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John Otto

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

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

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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."

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"In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on."

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"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."

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Amber Hurdle

"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

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"You don't really know a song until you play it live."

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Amber Hurdle

"I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it."

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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."

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"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself."

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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

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Amber Hurdle

"I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation."

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"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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