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 u…

- Buddy Rich

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 diff…

- Buddy Rich

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

- Buddy Rich

If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!

- Buddy Rich

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

- 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

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…

- Buddy Rich

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

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

- Buddy Rich