Wayne Kramer

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top…

— Wayne Kramer

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear…

— Wayne Kramer

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there…

— Wayne Kramer

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So…

— Wayne Kramer

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

— Wayne Kramer

I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

— Wayne Kramer

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted…

— Wayne Kramer

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere…

— Wayne Kramer

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was…

— Wayne Kramer

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and…

— Wayne Kramer

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til…

— Wayne Kramer

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

— Wayne Kramer

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and…

— Wayne Kramer

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.…

— Wayne Kramer