Drums Quotes

• 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
  • Music Is
  • Battling
  • Exorcism

• 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
  • Party
  • Sympathy
  • Admiration

• 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
  • Played
  • Drums

• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Play
  • I Love
  • Instruments

• I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • History
  • Works
  • Drums

• With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Battles

• 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
  • Music
  • Together
  • Drums

• Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Song
  • Drums
  • Recorded

• 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
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Drummer

• 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
  • Play
  • Destroyed
  • Encouragement

• 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
  • Father
  • Child
  • Exercises

• Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin.

  

  Suzi Quatro
  • Guitar
  • Drums
  • Bass

• 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
  • Music
  • Fake
  • Radio

• I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Record

• I played drums growing up. I rapped and everything.

  

  Trevor Daniel
  • Growing Up
  • Drums

• 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
  • Songs
  • Drums
  • Eagles

• 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
  • Guitar
  • Drums
  • Feel Better

• 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
  • Work
  • Drums
  • Suitcase

• 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
  • Sing
  • Onstage
  • Public Speaker

• I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Singer
  • Plays
  • Drums

• 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
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Drums

• 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
  • Leader
  • Miracle
  • Album

• I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Songs
  • Guitar
  • Written

• My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

  

  Milton Berle
  • Music
  • Family
  • Wife

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