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Jazz Drummer Inspirational Quotes (36)

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You only get better by playing.
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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If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
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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We're here to have a ball.
Art Blakey
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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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Fusion has been my nemesis.
Pete La Roca
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I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
Elvin Jones
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So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
Art Blakey
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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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You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
Elvin Jones
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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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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.
Buddy Rich
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
Art Blakey
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
Art Blakey
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I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.
Elvin Jones
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There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, Call me Muhammed so-and-so.
Art Blakey
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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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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Art Blakey
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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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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Buddy Rich
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What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!
Pete La Roca
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They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.
Art Blakey
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