John Otto Quotes

• When the songs pop out, that’s like the climax of us building.

  John Otto

• When the snares don’t hit together, it’s just the most awful thing to hear.

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• When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

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• We’ve got many different sides of music to us.

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• We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it – a lot more than what we did on our first album.

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• Sometimes the band can’t fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I’ve also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

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• Onstage, it’s more of a momentary pressure.

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• Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

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• It’s all about theme and development anyway. That’s what music is about.

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• I’ve always liked funk and rock and everything.

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• I’d take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

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• I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn’t have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

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• I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

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• I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

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• I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

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• Even on the drum level, it’s all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

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• But I’ve gravitated more towards the drum set.

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John Otto (17)

Birth:	22nd March, 1977
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Drummer

About

John Everett Otto was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a Canadian-American musician best known as the drummer and founding member of nu metal band Limp Bizkit. His albums list (with Limp Bizkit Band) shown below: Three Dollar Bill, Y'all, Significant Other, Significant Demos in Hell, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, New Old Songs, Results May Vary, and Gold Cobra.

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