Quotes by Buddy Rich - Page 1

You only get better by playing.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Music
Drumming
Get Better
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If you think you stink, you probably do.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Ifs
Stink
Thinking
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No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
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There are only two types of music.good and bad.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Good And Bad
Two
Type
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A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Great Music
Musician
Thieves
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Album
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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Enough
Kind
Long
Absorb
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There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Forty
Individual
Style
Thirty
Years
Years Ago
Forty Years
Styles
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As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Music
Jazz
School
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Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Creativity
Done
My Own
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If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Classification
Ifs
Play
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I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Fallacy
Harder
Practice
Thinking
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If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Ifs
Play
Request
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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Band
Drummer
Swings
Back
Primarily
Sit
Supposed
Swing
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Drummer
Influence
Way
Me Way Influence
Played
Consider
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Opportunity
Practice
Wells
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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 / Drummer
Cutting
Hands
Thinking
Better Things
Drum
Rim
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Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Average
Band
Sound
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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 / Drummer
Music
Play
Routine
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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 / Drummer
Artist
Creative
Jazz
Jazz Musician
Musician
Symphony
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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.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Routine
Believed
Depend
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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.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Drummer
Following
Classical
Laid
Same Thing
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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.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Jobs
Opportunity
Practice
Attained
Develop
Particularly
Piece
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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.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Guy
Play
Swings
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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.
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Percussion
Ravel
Thinking
Whoever
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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 / Drummer
Teacher
Drummer
Great Teacher
Play
Starting
Thinking
Today
Young
Himself
Instrument
Learn
Wants
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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 / Drummer
Fire
Flashing Lights
Light
Together
Trick
Lights
Resort
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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 / Drummer
Drummer
Form
Individual
Names
Sound
Taste
Anybody
Anybody Else
Influenced
Listened
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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.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Influence
Late
Player
Real
Thinking
Forties
Count
Drummers
Thirties
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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 / Drummer
Inspiration
One Time
Thinking
Winning
Time Me Way
Time Me Win
Naturally
Contest
Drum
Drummers
Gene
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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 / Drummer
Band
Mean
Musical
Personality
Thinking
Concept
Liked
Different Personalities
Tastes
Personalities
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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.
Buddy Rich / Drummer
Creativity
Play
Ten
Thinking
Thousand
Almost Everything
Anyone Else
Drummers
Play Drums
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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 / Drummer
Amplification
Every Night
Musical
Night
Percussion
Play
Thinking
Drum
Instrument
Microphone
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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 / Drummer
Symphony
Thinking
Years
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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.
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Creating
Symphony
Thousand
Drummers
Exactly
Exactly What
Hundred Years
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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 / Drummer
Interpretation
Play
Thinking
Writing
Arranger
Becomes
Chart
Create
Drum
Mechanical
Plays
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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 / Drummer
Drummer
Lacking
Mind
Play
Sitting
Solo
Thinking
Tunes
Wail
Whoever
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