"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

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"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."

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"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."

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"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

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"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."

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"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."

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"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"Conscience is God present in man."

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."