Drummer Quotes
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My drummer was my best friend. It weighs on me that we put all that time in - I played with him for 15 years, beginning with 'Laguardia' - and we had moderate success.
Joshua Ostrander -
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel -
One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. Our music is not about me; I contribute one part, one experience, and drummer Terreon Gully brings something completely different.
Stefon Harris -
Some are more nuts than others. I've had my moments. But I don't think I'm really a typical drummer. I've met some that I couldn't keep up with.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.
Rich Robinson The Black Crowes -
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
Robert Wyatt -
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
Neil Peart Rush -
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.
Celestine Sibley -
I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.
Jack White The White Stripes
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"My fans are the best ever! thank you for voting for me on being a great drummer. it means the world to me that you guys cared enough to vote"
Jose Pasillas Incubus -
I'm a frustrated drummer. That's why our songs tended to be drum-heavy. But our harmonies were complex, too. You'll never hear 'Rag Doll' in a Holiday Inn lounge because it's just too hard to sing.
Bob Gaudio -
I think it's very cool for the drummer to be set free from having to worry about holding down the beat every once in a while, though it's a little constricting.
James Hetfield Metallica -
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
Eleanor Powell -
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
I've become really good friends with Ringo and he also has expressed admiration for the first album and the drumming on the first album. I remember back in the day, Bruce our drummer met him and he asked for Knack buttons for his kids. So, it was pretty cool.
Doug Fieger The Knack
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I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.
M.C. Brockert -
I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
Tré Cool Green Day -
I think the biggest challenge for drummers is knowing what not to play. Everybody wants to be recognized, but in a three-minute pop song it’s hard to be recognized if you’re the drummer—and you have to be okay with that.
Paul Doucette Matchbox Twenty -
I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
Rex Orange County