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" I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you. "

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" For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. "

" I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night. "

" To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. "

" You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? "

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" 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. "

" Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken. "

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" A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter. "

" I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable. "

" I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them. "

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" 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. "