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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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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"I didn't want to be an artist."
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"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
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"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
Learning
"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."
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"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
Opportunity
"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
"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
"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."
Music
"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."
Artist
"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers."
Influence
"I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get."
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