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"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
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"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things."
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"It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years."
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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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"I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years."
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"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore."
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"I was a smoker for about 20 years."
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"About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape."
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"The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good."
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"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
Learning
"And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that."
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"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
"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."
Influence
"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
Freedom
"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
"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 play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night."
Needs
"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."
Influence
"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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