Drummer Quotes - Page 5

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

  Matt Cameron

  Writing, Thinking, Tunes

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• I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

  Caroline Corr

  Female, Looks

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.

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• I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

  Michael Bland

  Athlete

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

  Bill Bruford

  Bills, Fabulous, Plus

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• Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

  Pete Townshend

  Moon, Keith, Jazz

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com. 1966.

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• If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Player, Guitar, Japan

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.

  Bill Bruford

  Strong, Ideas, Ability

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• Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Beats, Certain

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality - the broader picture, if you will.

  Bill Bruford

  Nuts, Individuality, Importance

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• I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

  Sean Kinney

  Thinking, Female, Should

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• Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Inspirational, Hope, Memories

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• Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.

  Ian Shoales

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Rocks

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• God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

  Ginger Baker

  God, Pain, Past

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

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• I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

  Greg Saunier

  Jobs, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stars, Couple, Fun

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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 can't consider myself a drummer any more.

  Phil Collins

  I Can

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  Bessie Smith

  Want, Tempo

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• I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Song, Pride, Cds

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• Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts while he played the drums. He just wanted to play the drums and have some fun.

  Dr. John

  Fun, Thinking, Play

  "Dr. John Exclusive Interview: Musically He's Been in the Right Place at the Right Time". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stars, Flames, Soldier

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heart, Eye, Beer

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Desolation Angels”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.

  Patty Schemel

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

  Tony Palermo

  Play, Kind, Beats

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• Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Radical Feminism, Political

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