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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks."
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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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"I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good."
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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."
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"We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened."
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"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit."
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"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years."
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"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."
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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
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