Drummer Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• [Eddie Locke] had a huge impact in my life. He was a great jazz drummer. He was mentored by Papa Joe Jones and he played for many years with Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge and actually got me on a gig with Roy Eldridge when I was 20 that I'll never forget.

  Jon Gordon

  Impact, Years, Papa

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• PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.

  Al Murray

  Opportunity, Black, Affordable

  Source: www.roland.co.uk

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• It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.

  Dean Wareham

  Imagine, Like You, Punk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The drummer is definitely the hidden hero of a band they really hold the music together. It's actually a really difficult job, and as I said before they're very much hidden, they're not the celebrity, they're not the front man so they get the best of both worlds really

  Dominic Cooper

  Hero, Men, Together

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and gig as much as possible.

  Sarah Harmer

  Dad, Goal, Agents

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Shhhh...right now, all around you, outside your door, down the street, and in every corner of YOUR world... there's evidence of a conspiracy. ALL THE ELEMENTS are secretly marching to the beat... of YOUR drummer... while casually pretending to be detached and indifferent...YOU ARE THAT POWERFUL.

  Mike Dooley

  Change, Powerful, Doors

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• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  Jillian Hervey

  Ballet Class, Dancer, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cities, League, Zombie

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

  Phil Collins

  Machines, Composer, Composing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

  Phil Collins

  Simple, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think I was the best drummer!

  Phil Collins

  Thinking

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

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• Everybody marches to a different drummer.

  Hugh Hefner

  Different, March

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• [For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Hands, Dawn

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I met the guys at HeavyRoc through the drummer in St. Lucia, Nick Brown. He is Ben from The Knocks' cousin, and at the time we'd been doing some work together, but everything was still very much in the unsure developmental phase (even though I'd been in it for a year and a half). I told him that if he was going to play the music for anyone that he shouldn't say anything about it and should just play it and see if anyone says anything, and he did it one day at their studio and they loved it and got it touch.

  St. Lucia

  Cousin, Years, Play

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

  Steve Young

  Views, Different, Easy

  Steve Young Interview, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Cadets, Looks, Band

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.

  Theresa Wayman

  Thinking, Quitting, Shows

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• We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Years, Three

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• I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

  Max Tundra

  Thinking, Track, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.

  John Petrucci

  Fun, Class, Special

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

  Sammy Hagar

  Team, Player, Guitar

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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