#drum

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

— Buddy Rich

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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. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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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. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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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

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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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I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

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I like drums, really, if they're under control. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

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