I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
You only get better by playing.
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.
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.