Tony Williams
Tony Williams
Jazz and soul drummer who is considered the a jazz fusion pioneer. It is thought that he invented the drumming technique called blast beat.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth12 December 1945
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.
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I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
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Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.
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What all of us heard (at Monday night's public hearing) is that the animal shelter is not open enough. I think we need to do a better job of organizing it so that it's more available to the public,
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We may find that it's a wastewater plant operator or our parks employees whose pay we need to adjust higher. We'll know that better after we do a significant survey of 10 or 12 cities that we think we should stack up against.
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We were in a car accident one time, and in that one second that I swerved on the road-- it made a difference between life and death.
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That expense is going to reduce the amount of reserves that we would otherwise have accumulated, but because we are ahead of schedule in the accumulation of reserves in this current fiscal year, I believe we are on a schedule I am comfortable with to put the reserves back where they need to be,
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Everybody talks about Lifetime being the first fusion band, but it was really sort of a throwback to what was going on when I started out in Boston.
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I've heard no evidence that Stephen didn't voluntarily choose to ingest those leaves.
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I knew (passing AIMS) was something I really had to do.
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I'm very excited about the opportunity. I really am. I'm excited and looking forward to working with the people here, the ones I've worked with all these years.
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I played with a lot of organ trios because that was one of the big sounds there, and that's what the original Lifetime really was.