Drummers Quotes
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I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees
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When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.
Mike Joyce Buzzcocks -
To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Tré Cool Green Day -
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
John Densmore The Doors -
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Tré Cool Green Day -
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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 Led Zeppelin -
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We drummers only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.
Yusaku Maezawa -
Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater.
Rikki Rockett Poison -
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
A lot of drummers, obviously they want to show off and do all these fills and everything, but the main objective is to play for the song.
John Tempesta The Cult -
I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.
Robert Trujillo Metallica -
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
Ed Thigpen