Drums Quotes
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I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums.' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin.
Suzi Quatro -
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I played drums growing up. I rapped and everything.
Trevor Daniel -
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
Neil Peart Rush
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Apparently this r had to be worked for: Varya told me that as a child she couldn’t pronounce it properly, and that her father would make her repeat a series of exercises about gorgeous grapes growing on Mount Ararat and three hundred thirty-three drummers drumming on three hundred thirty-three drums.
Bel Kaufman -
She Beyonce is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.
Bryce Wilson -
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
Don Henley The Eagles -
I never learned technique; I just let my band naturally guide me in the way I play drums. I think that’s the best way to learn. Bless you if you go to school and learn technique or read music.
Noah Bernardo P.O.D. -
My older son asked me yesterday.."Father, can you teach me how to play drums"...What a feeling. :) The disease has spread I guess...
Kai Hahto Nightwish -
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
Neil Peart Rush -
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
Don Henley The Eagles -
All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
Phil Collins Genesis
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For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
William Fitzgerald Harper -
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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 -
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
Nolan Sotillo