American - Playwright | November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
Sam Shepard
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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Men lie all the time.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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