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"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
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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?"
Jazz
"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
Rest
"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
Love
"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
Change
"We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know."
Work
"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."
Love
"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
Hell
"You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't."
World
"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
Play
"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'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop."
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"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."
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"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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