You only get better by playing.

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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

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There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

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I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

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I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

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If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

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