Drummer Quotes - Page 10

• I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

  Rick Astley

  Rocks, Play, Band

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

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• If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

  Steve Winwood

  Mistake, Bars, Authority

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• I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.

  Stevie Nicks

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

  Donald Dunn

  Player, Would Be, World

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• Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

  Mike Patton

  Jealous, Thinking, Focus

  Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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• The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Christmas, Boys, Littles

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• No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Husband, Adventure, Kids

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.57, Vintage

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• I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.

  Rich Robinson

  Love, Brother, Giving Up

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Numbers, Twenties, Band

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• People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Jealous, People

  "Interview: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel". Interview with Laremy Legel, Chelsia Hart, www.mtv.com. June 5, 2010.

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• I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

  Juicy J

  Rap, Years, Singers

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• As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

  Eric Hernandez

  Jobs, People, Albums

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• I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

  Eric Hernandez

  Modern, Website, Isolated

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• I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

  Brian Eno

  Cds, Interesting, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Strong, Brother, New York

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.

  Panda Bear

  Rocks, Opposites, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could still say, "Oh, those aren't the right hand motions." On drums, you have to actually hit them. You can't fake it.

  Miles Teller

  Air, Hands, Play

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to play drums and my dad got me a set. I played for several years, but I wasn't meant to be a drummer, I guess. I can play drums on my own things - obviously on some of my own records I play drums. But I didn't start playing guitar until I was 11.

  Shuggie Otis

  Dad, Play, Guitar

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

  Hannah

  Cutting, Judgment, Shirts

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• I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Musical, Training, Identity

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

  Patricia Barber

  Want, Right Now

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• You might be the "little drummer boy," worried that what you have to say isn't worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you and not a copy of others you feel are successful.

  Chris Brogan

  Real, Successful, Boys

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• All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Strong, Men, Justice For All

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

  Keith Richards

  Couple, Player, Guitar

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• 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

  Connections, Stranger, Fifth

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