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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."
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"Losing your job gives you access to time."

"One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances."

"First opportunity is the golden opportunity."

"Adversity is opportunity inside out."

"Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it."

"Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface, it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!"

"One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch."

"Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It's not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it."

"Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you, you have to go for it."

"Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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