“If you don’t have ability, you end up playing in a rock band.”
- Buddy Rich
(1917-87), legendary jazz drummer
I spotted this quote in a superb film I watched a few
weeks ago, Whiplash, and have not
been able to put it out of my mind. It’s become a sort of mantra to me. And
though its deep truth seems enigmatic and ungraspable to some, I know what he’s
saying here, and I herewith place it in the sanctum of my heart.
It actually inspires me to keep chipping away at my
Grand Obsession, carving and chipping and etching like Michelangelo hovering
about a slab of marble, a project I’ve begun over 18 months ago, and still
proceeding along at a snail’s pace …
And I’ve played in a rock band!
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