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"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."
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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that."

"We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album."

"I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing."

"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."

"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."
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