"Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence."
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"I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me."
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"I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage."
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"I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul."
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"The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off."
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"The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album."
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"Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about"
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"My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to."
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"You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed."
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"I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era."
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"Drumming is my middle name."
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"I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy."
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"When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer."
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"I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'"
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with."
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"America: It's like Britain, only with buttons."
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"And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned."
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"First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money."
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"That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain."
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