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Buddy Rich

"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

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"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

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"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

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"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today."
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"So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."
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"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me."
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