"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

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"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

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"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum."

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"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."

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"I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing."

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"People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud."

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"It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it."

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"When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything."

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"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."

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"A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter."

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"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."

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"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."

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