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Jazz Drummer Inspirational Quotes (36)

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The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.
Art Blakey
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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
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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Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.
Buddy Rich
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A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
Buddy Rich
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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.
Buddy Rich
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Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!
Art Blakey
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Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
Buddy Rich
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The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.
Elvin Jones
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There are only two types of music.good and bad.
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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All you have to do is be able to feel.
Art Blakey
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