Buddy Rich Quotes

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• But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

  Buddy Rich

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• You only get better by playing.

  Buddy Rich

  Music, Get Better, Drumming

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• Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

  Buddy Rich

  Average, Sound, Band

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• A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

  Buddy Rich

  Musician, Thieves, Great Music

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• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  Buddy Rich

  Fire, Light, Together

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• I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Practice, Harder

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• I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

  Buddy Rich

  Mean, Thinking, Personality

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• But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

  Buddy Rich

  Teacher, Thinking, Play

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• If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

  Buddy Rich

  Artist, Symphony, Creative

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• I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

  Buddy Rich

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

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• Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

  Buddy Rich

  Names, Sound, Taste

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• I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

  Buddy Rich

  Way, Influence, Drummer

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• I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

  Buddy Rich

  Inspiration, Winning, Thinking

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• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• There are only two types of music.good and bad.

  Buddy Rich

  Two, Type, Good And Bad

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• I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

  Buddy Rich

  Music, Play, Routine

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• There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

  Buddy Rich

  Years, Style, Individual

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• If you think you stink, you probably do.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Stink, Ifs

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• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  Buddy Rich

  Swings, Band, Drummer

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• If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!

  Buddy Rich

  Play, Request, Ifs

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• To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Years, Symphony

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• No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

  Buddy Rich

  Bores

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• As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

  Buddy Rich

  Music, School, Jazz

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• And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Ravel, Percussion

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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