Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

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The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

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Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

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If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

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The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

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I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

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I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.

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