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"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."
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
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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
"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
"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
"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
Opportunity
"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
"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
Years
"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."
Play
"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
Creativity
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