Drummer Quotes
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LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
Chet Baker
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
Walter Payton -
How do you know when the drum riser is level? The drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth!
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel -
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Wayne Coyne -
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
Bessie Smith -
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Chet Baker
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole -
In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
Max Roach -
You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down -
Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts while he played the drums. He just wanted to play the drums and have some fun.
Dr. John
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I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.
Cozy Powell -
I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
Q-Tip -
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
Max Roach -
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire -
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
Pat Morita -
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
James Brown
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
Malin Akerman -
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
Phil Collins Genesis -
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s -
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
Max Roach