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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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Buddy Rich
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 30
Died: 1987
Died: April 2
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