A biography for Buddy Richhasn’t been written yet.
“I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.”
“If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.”
“I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.”
“Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.”
“To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.”