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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.
Levon Helm
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Levon Helm
Age: 71 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: April 19
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My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
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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.
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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.
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If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
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The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
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I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
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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.
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Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
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