Buddy Rich Quotes

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

I always had an appreciation for diverse musical styles.

I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I really like to think of each record as its own thing. So, for sure, but I hate the idea of being stuck in anything. Like I want to do a Hawkwind-style record too, or a noise rock record or a hardcore record. Why not, you know? I would just not want to keep heading too far in one direction, without pulling off and going the other way.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I can't re-define music every week!

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.