Wayne Kramer Quotes

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• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of…
• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling…
• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how…
• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in…
• Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that…
• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that…
• Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most…
• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
• I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
• If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole…
• It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was…
• We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and…
• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't…

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