Drummer Quotes - Page 9

• [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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• 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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• 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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• Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

  Patricia Barber

  Want, Right Now

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To be completely honest, I was not at all keen to have him. I thought his drumming rather loud, his appearance unimpressive, and I could not see why he was important to the Beatles. But again I trusted their instincts and I am grateful now. He has become an excellent Beatle and a devoted friend. Ringo is warm and wry-witted, a good drummer, and I like him enormously. He is a very uncomplicated, very nice young man.

  Brian Epstein

  Nice, Grateful, Men

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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  Jack White

  Home, White, Stripes

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

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• I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.

  Keith Moon

  Moon, Style, World

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• A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

  Eleanor Powell

  Dancer, Frustrated, Tap Dancers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

  John Bonham

  Names, Car, Potty

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• Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.

  Lars Ulrich

  Stupid, Thinking, Years

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• Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

  Chet Baker

  All Time, Frank, Knows

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• F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Love Of My Life, Decision

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

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• Make the drummer sound good.

  Steve Lacy

  Sound, Crafts

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• What’s wrong?” asked Seth, seeing my frown. “That new drummer. Alec. He hit on me earlier, and now he’s moving in on Casey. I think he’s one of those guys who thinks plying girls with liquor is the only way to get laid.” “Wait. I thought I was the only guy who knew that secret.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.78, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.

  Noel Gallagher

  Say Anything, Three, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Jazz, Percussion

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

  Max Roach

  Men, Orchestra, Percussion

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• I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Dream, Powerful

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• Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

  Buddy Rich

  Average, Sound, Band

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