Drumming Quotes
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
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My drumming is always an experiment.
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Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.
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Leaving my home today to go do this. I love my home. My wife, our dogs. But my love of drumming, of making music, is strong enough to pull me away time after time.
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
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A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.
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Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.
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Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
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Drumming is my main thing but I’ve always been the type of person that I can pull a sound out of any instrument if I’m given a couple of minutes to figure it out.
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In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
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Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.
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One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.
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I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.
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Drumming is hard work, my friends!
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I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.
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When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
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There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.
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I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.
