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"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."
"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."
"No, I don't like recording. It's a bore."
"As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time."
"I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."
"If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!"
"If you think you stink, you probably do."
"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."
"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
"You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts."
"If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications."
"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity."