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If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

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When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

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I have to change. It's like a curse.

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Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!

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Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.

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Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.

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I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

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You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

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The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 26th, 1926

Died: September 28th, 1991

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