Drummer Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Guy, Trying

  "'Give the Drummer Some'". www.fooarchive.com. 1995.

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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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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

  Chet Baker

  Play, Jazz, Inspired

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• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Teena Marie

  Song, Real, Sacrifice

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• I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

  Tre Cool

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

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• I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

  Robert Wyatt

  Butterfly, Thinking, Littles

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• We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

  John Lennon

  Music, Found, Dump

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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  Randy Castillo

  Hands, Play, Parent

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• First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Firsts, Making Money

  "The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers". Book by Max Weinberg and Robert Santelli, 1984.

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• I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.

  Carla Azar

  Song, School, High School

  "Autolux". Interview with Megan, brightestyoungthings.com. September 1, 2010.

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• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  Elvin Jones

  Musical, Ensemble, Arms

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• I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

  Robert Fripp

  Morning, Views, Concern For Others

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• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  Buddy Rich

  Swings, Band

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• I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

  Travis Barker

  Want, Limits, Pushing

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• When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

  Ringo Starr

  Thirteen, Wanted

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• Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

  Pat Morita

  Sound, Hips, Groovy

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

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• When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

  Brooke Burke

  Keys, Rocks, Band

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• Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

  Dick Dale

  People, Musician, World

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• I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

  Lou Gramm

  Singing, Littles

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• I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

  Matt Cameron

  Hard Times, Night, Shapes

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• Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

  Adrian Belew

  School, Age, Band

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• At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Hate, Thinking, Mail

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

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