Words matter. These are the best Buddy Rich Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
But primarily, the drummer’s supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
I think it’s a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
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.
