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.

In the early fifties Rich played with Dorsey and began to perform with trumpeter Harry James an association which lasted until 1966. Well he knocked me right out.

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30 1917 – April 2 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.