Buddy Rich Quotes

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

If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You only get better by playing.

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

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

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

If you think you stink, you probably do.

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

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