Drummer Quotes

• But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

  Buddy Rich

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

  e. e. cummings

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• My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

  Ringo Starr

  Love Of My Life, Soul, Rich

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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.

  Mickey Hart

  Powerful, Energy, Body

  "Mickey Hart returns attention to world music". www.cnn.com. December 02, 1998.

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

  Phil Collins

  Play, Singers, Bits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

  Chet Baker

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• I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

  Keith Moon

  People, Rock N Roll

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• If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

  Levon Helm

  Music, Work, Heart

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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

  Safety, Wire, Musician

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jul 25, 2012

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• Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

  James Brown

  God, Different, Beats

  "James Brown: Still funky after all these years" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2000.

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• If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

  Duke Ellington

  Band, Mediocre, Ifs

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• It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Song, Matter, Chicks

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• A drummer is usually like the backbone.

  Brody Dalle

  Backbone

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• March to the beat of your own drummer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Healing, Teens, Overcoming Adversity

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• Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

  Thelonious Monk

  Mean, Jazz, Monk

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• I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

  Matt Cameron

  Musician, Likes, Kind

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• I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

  Max Roach

  Hero, Thinking, Style

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• But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

  Buddy Rich

  Teacher, Thinking, Play

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• Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

  Steven Adler

  Feelings, Pace, Window

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• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  Matt Cameron

  Writing, Thinking, Tunes

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• Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

  Buddy Rich

  Names, Sound, Taste

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• That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

  Elvin Jones

  Essentials, Fine, Can Do Something

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• To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

  Ian Paice

  Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, Beautiful, Honesty

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• Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Soul, Trouble, Rhythm

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