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

You only get better by playing.

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

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

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

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.

Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

I think writers are very anxious.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.

You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.