"If you put this in the context of……" — Wayne Kramer
"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 nightclub culture where bands could work."
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Wayne Kramer
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14 Quotes by Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer has 14 quotes on this site.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock…
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own…
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As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more…
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys…
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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately…
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real…
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn…
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his…
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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes…
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