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Top 45 Quotes About Buddy Rich
#1. 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.
#2. 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.
#3. So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.
#4. Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.
#5. A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
#6. As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
#7. As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
#8. You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.
#9. Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
#10. So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's ... an opportunity to develop.
#11. But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
#12. Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy
#13. They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
#14. 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.
#15. There are only two types of music.good and bad.
#16. As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.
#17. You only get better by playing.
#18. It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
#19. If you think you stink, you probably do.
#20. Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
#21. Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
#22. I guess like my good buddy Jesus said "it really is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle dude, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, so go for it, YOLO.
#23. Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
#24. 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.
#25. No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
#26. Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
#27. I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
#28. If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
#29. I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
#30. If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.
#31. 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.
#32. I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
#33. I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
#34. 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.
#35. 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.
#36. 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.
#37. 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.
#38. People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
#39. 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.
#40. I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
#41. 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.
#42. 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.
#43. 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.
#44. And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
#45. There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
