Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Richwas an American jazz drummer and bandleader...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth30 September 1917
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
exactly hundred limited played symphony written
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.
thinking years symphony
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.
artist symphony creative
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.
album takes
It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
challenge classical following front great laid simply
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.
jobs opportunity practice
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.
opportunity practice wells
Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
play swings guy
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.
night thinking play
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.
cutting thinking hands
I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
thinking ravel percussion
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.
play request ifs
If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
play classification ifs
If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.
real player thinking
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.