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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
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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
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
- Buddy Rich
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
- Buddy Rich
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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
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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
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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
- Buddy Rich
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
- Buddy Rich
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You only get better by playing.
- Buddy Rich
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I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
- Buddy Rich
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
- Buddy Rich
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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
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