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"I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction."
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"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."
"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"
"Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction."
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"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."
"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."
"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
"People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud."
"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum."
"Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic."
"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."
"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
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