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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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"I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years."
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"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."
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"I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later."
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"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."
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"The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other."
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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
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"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."
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"I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon."
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"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."
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"We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did."
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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
Learning
"So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop."
Opportunity
"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."
Fire
"Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste."
Name
"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
Opportunity
"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me."
Time
"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
"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
Years
"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."
Play
"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
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