Peter Erskine Quotes

#1. In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Neil Peart

#2. The playthings of our elders are called business.

Saint Augustine

#3. I think it says, 'Color will not fade.

Ann Aguirre

#4. We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies ... quality!

Peter Erskine

#5. One, you don't know everything. Two, what you don't know can absolutely hurt you. And three, someone's getting fucked. The only question is, who's wearing the strap-on?

Mira Grant

#6. Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Max Cleland

#7. We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

Tom Green

#8. I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

Peter George Peterson

#9. We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

Peter Erskine

#10. The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much
or more
*cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

Peter Erskine

#11. There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Peter Erskine

#12. Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.

Julius Genachowski