"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."

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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."

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"I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night."

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"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."

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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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"I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get."

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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."

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"And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that."

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"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."

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"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."

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"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today."

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"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."

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