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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You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.
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Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
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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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A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
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