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Wayne Kramer

"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."

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"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."

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"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."

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"Vayoo ansha.I shook my head and whispered, 'Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore."

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"The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better."

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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."

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"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."

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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

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"You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself."

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"Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them."

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"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"

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"When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos."
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"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future."
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"It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist."
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"I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused."
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"As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs."
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"When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people."
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"If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work."
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"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."
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