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I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
Levon Helm
People
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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Fool
Fun
Reward
I like walking on the edge.
Levon Helm
Walking
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
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Favorite
Songs
I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
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Travel
Policy
Country
Eating
Restaurants
Road
Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
Levon Helm
Growing up
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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School
Trying
I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
Levon Helm
Love
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
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Music
Fun
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
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Dad
Mom
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
Levon Helm
Life
Time
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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Son
Friend
Job
Musicians
Don't we all want what's best for each other?
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Want
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
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Fool
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.
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Error
Play
Song