 By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life. |
| 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. |
| I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear. |
| We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that. |
| I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that. |
| I like walking on the edge. |
| I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. |
| 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. |
| The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work. |
| When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool. |
| If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. |
| If things are going slow, I'm itchy. |
| The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did. |
| Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me. |
| With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house. |
| Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play. |
| 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. |
