Buddy Rich Quotes
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.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.
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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.
