Drummer Quotes

• 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
  • Worry
  • Beat
  • Drummer

• I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Acting
  • Would
  • Needed

• A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

  

  Eleanor Powell
  • Dancer
  • Drummer

• I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs.

  

  Carla Azar
  • School
  • Song
  • Drummer

• I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes

  

  Charles McPherson
  • Age
  • Guy
  • House

• 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
  • Yourself
  • Realized
  • Releasing

• There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Communication
  • Conversation
  • Musician

• When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Nirvana

• I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.

  

  Mitchell Joachim
  • Technology
  • Playing
  • Would

• I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Play
  • Drummer

• I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Planet
  • Rock And Roll
  • Drummer

• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Mood
  • Role
  • Jazz

• I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.

  

  Carla Azar
  • School
  • Song
  • Drummer

• I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

  

  Anthony Langston
  • Drummer
  • Sticks
  • Drum

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