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"To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers."
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"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
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"It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago."
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"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."
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"This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience."
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"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away."
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"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."
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"We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute."
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"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years."
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"And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years."
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"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
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"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."
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"They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer."
Being
"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
Artist
"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
Creativity
"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today."
Music
"I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get."
Practice
"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."
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"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
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"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers."
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