quotes about Drummer
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I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.
-- Anthony Langston -
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
-- Bill Bruford -
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
-- Buddy Rich -
But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
-- Buddy Rich -
I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
-- Caroline CorrSource : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.
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It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
-- Chet Baker -
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Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
-- Chet Baker -
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
-- Gary Cole -
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
-- Ian Paice -
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
-- Isaac Hanson -
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I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.
-- J. RobbinsSource : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
-- Jam Master JaySource : "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
-- Jimmy Page -
My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
-- John Bonham -
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I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
-- Keith Moon -
It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
-- Larry Mullen, Jr. -
I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
-- Lou Gramm -
I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
-- Malin Akerman -
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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
-- Max Roach -
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
-- Max RoachSource : "Max Roach, Master of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.
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As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
-- Mel Torme -
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
-- Micky Dolenz -
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
-- Narada Michael Walden -
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
-- Noel Redding -
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
-- Pat Morita -
He's (Ringo Starr) not even the best drummer in the Beatles....
-- Paul McCartney -
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I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
-- Pharoah Sanders -
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
-- Phil Collins -
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
-- Phil Collins -
Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
-- Rachel TrachtenburgSource : "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
-- Ringo Starr -
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
-- Ringo Starr -
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
-- Srikumar Rao -
I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
-- St. Vincent -
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If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
-- Steve Winwood -
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan -
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
-- Thelonious Monk -
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I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
-- Tre Cool -
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
-- Tre Cool -
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I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
-- Eric Hernandez -
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
-- Glenn KotcheSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.
-- Jay WatsonSource : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
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I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!
-- Michael Bland -
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I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
-- Sean Kinney -
Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.
-- Slim Moon -
I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.
-- Theresa Wayman -
I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.
-- Thighpaulsandra -
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I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
-- Tony Palermo -
The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.
-- Z'EV -
My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.
-- Aaron Bruno -
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PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.
-- Al MurraySource : Source: www.roland.co.uk
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Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.
-- Patricia Barber -
That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
-- Elvin Jones