There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
You only get better by playing.
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.
There are only two types of music.good and bad.
Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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.