Buddy Rich Quotes

You only get better by playing. - Buddy Rich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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