Drummer Quotes - Page 3

• Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

  Steve Cropper

  House, Memphis, Sticks

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• Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Names, Firsts

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• In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

  Miles Davis

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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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• When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

  Gene Krupa

  Talking, Guy, Ems

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• I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Moving, Kids, Play

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• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Hernias, Tempo

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• I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

  Nina Hagen

  East Berlin, Band, My Own

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• I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

  Jam Master Jay

  Guitar

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• I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

  Buddy Rich

  Inspiration, Winning, Thinking

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• Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

  Neil Innes

  Tired, Kissing, Blow

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• My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

  Brian Molko

  People, Mouths, Trouble

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• To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Years, Symphony

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• Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

  Jimmy Page

  Doubt, Moments, Playboy

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• The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

  Peter Erskine

  Player, Credit, Cymbals

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• Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

  Noel Redding

  Different, Hendrix, Mets

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• In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

  Matt Cameron

  Couple, Fun, Different

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• As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

  Mel Torme

  Feelings, Rich, Buddy

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• Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

  Peter Tork

  Sunday, Guitar, Band

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• To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain

  Richard Marx

  Kindness, Loss, Heaven

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• The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Creativity, Men, Games

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• The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• Everything government touches turns to crap.

  Ringo Starr

  Libertarian Party, Government, Liberty

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• A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

  Bill Bruford

  Reading, Rocks, Guy

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