Buddy Rich Quotes

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

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Creative
  • More

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Going
  • Get
  • Regulations

• I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • You
  • Best
  • Doing

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Hair
  • Easy
  • Short

• Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Done
  • Two
  • Segregation

• I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Lost
  • Sometimes
  • Media

• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • You
  • See
  • Ownership

• There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Why
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Work
  • Ethics

• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Seeing

• I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Independent
  • Decisions

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Ready
  • Come
  • Wretched

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Cheese

• Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Reality
  • Celebrity
  • Disappointment

• On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • War
  • Environment
  • Deep

• When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Existence
  • Darkness

• You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Fall In Love
  • Gutter

• Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • May
  • Together

• 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