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"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
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"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
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"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor."
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"I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years."
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"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
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"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
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"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
"I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes."
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"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
"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
"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
"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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"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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"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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"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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