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"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
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"A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes."
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"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
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"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
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"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
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"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."
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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
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"If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
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"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
Freedom
"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
"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
Opportunity
"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
Learning
"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
"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
Years
"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."
Leader
"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
"To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers."
Years
"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
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