If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
If you pour some music on whatever’s wrong, it’ll sure help out.
Music is the language of heaven.
The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
I’m not in it for my health. I’m a musician and I wanna live the way I do.
We’re all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I’ve had it a lot better than most people. I’ve had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
I don’t hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain’t their idea, it ain’t no good, so you got that to contend with.
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it’s hard for me to resist.
I don’t fool with a lot of things that I can’t have fun with. There’s not much reward in that.
When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They’d all gobble back at once.
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
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.
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.