Drumming quotes
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Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.
-- Babatunde Olatunji -
Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.
-- Chris Adler -
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.
-- James Genn -
I have been drumming my whole life.
-- Jeremy Piven -
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I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
-- Jimmy Chamberlin -
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
-- John Bonham -
But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.
-- Jonny Greenwood -
They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.
-- Keith Moon -
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Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.
-- Layne Redmond -
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
-- Lionel Hampton -
A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.
-- Mickey Hart -
When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
-- Mickey Hart -
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
-- Neil Peart -
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
-- Neil Peart -
Drumming is my middle name.
-- Ringo Starr -
There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.
-- Suzy Kassem -
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For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.
-- Yelawolf -
I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.
-- Eric Hernandez -
Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.
-- Eric Hernandez -
I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it.
-- Glenn Kotche -
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I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.
-- Reed Mullin -
I really enjoyed playing that Blind stuff because it's a little more mathy and metal and as far as drumming goes, it's a bit more fun.
-- Reed Mullin -
Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.
-- Babatunde Olatunji -
I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.
-- Lauren Mayberry -
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In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.
-- Machel Montano
