Buddy Rich Quotes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

An unused life is an early death.

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.

Man knows so much and does so little.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

I have wasted my hours.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

I did very little at Real Madrid. I would have liked to do much more but I didn't get the chance.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.