Krupa's Quotes

#1. I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

Dick Dale

#2. Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

Eddie Condon

#3. We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.

Killi Krupa Rani

#4. I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.

Gene Krupa

#5. You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Seth Godin

#6. 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

#7. The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

#8. If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

Gene Krupa

#9. I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.

Killi Krupa Rani

#10. You are all I ever need.

T.S. Krupa

#11. Everything is possible. You once told me not too long ago we should always have hope and I do.

T.S. Krupa

#12. I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it's cute.

T.S. Krupa

#13. Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful.

Gene Krupa

#14. There's no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you're rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.

Chuck Klosterman

#15. Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.

Dick Dale

#16. I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

Dick Dale

#17. Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

Lucy Griffiths

#18. Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Gene Krupa

#19. The best part about life is you don't know the outcome.

T.S. Krupa

#20. If I have learned anything over this last year it's that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn't work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.

T.S. Krupa

#21. I hope this might be forever.

T.S. Krupa

#22. I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

#23. I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career
every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.

Jen Lancaster

#24. I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

Ann Romney

#25. When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Gene Krupa

#26. I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

Anurag Kashyap

#27. If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.

Neil Peart

#28. Rich could play way better than Krupa.

Al Hirt

#29. I don't know how you got so lucky twice in your life, but I think love found you out on that beach.

T.S. Krupa

#30. How much is your sincerity, that much will be 'Our' divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.

Dada Bhagwan