Buddy Rich Quotes

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that's kind of cool, actually.

Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.

Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.

I am a deeply competitive person when it comes to music.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

My family wasn't involved in music, but I love music.

'Frayed Ends Of Sanity' off the 'Justice' album is a song that I really wanted to play with the band, and for years and years, I was always like, 'Let's play this song!' But I'll tell you something: I started working on that song almost from the very first time I joined the band.

I am fierce, yes, but I'm serious about music.

Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on crew for productions until 11 at night, from 12 A.M. to 3 A.M. I was hanging out with jazz musicians.

I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.

We play the instruments we love.