Drumming Quotes

• A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

  Mickey Hart

  Powerful, Energy, Body

  "Mickey Hart returns attention to world music". www.cnn.com. December 02, 1998.

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• Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

  Lionel Hampton

  Way, Best Way

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• Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.

  Chris Adler

  Fun, Worry, Can Do

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• Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Together, Simplest, Can Do

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• When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

  Mickey Hart

  Feelings, Different, Body

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• Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

  Neil Peart

  Force, Stamina, Sprint

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• You only get better by playing.

  Buddy Rich

  Music, Get Better, Jazz

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• Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

  James Genn

  Music, Film Directing, Together

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• The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

  Black Elk

  Song, Native American, Sky

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

  Layne Redmond

  Healing, Mean, Technology

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• Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Action, Rhythm, Humans

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• I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

  Dave Grohl

  Feel Better, Guitar, Play

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• You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

  Patti Smith

  Mistake, Improvisation, Cold Feet

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.185, A&C Black

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• Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

  John Bonham

  Drummer, Lethal Weapon, Jersey Girl

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• Drumming is my middle name.

  Ringo Starr

  Names, Middle

  Song: Drumming Is My Madness

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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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• Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Rocks, Different, Would Be

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• But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.

  Jonny Greenwood

  People, Today, Radiohead

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• It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Team, Athlete

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• I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Lyrical

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• It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Finesse, Touring

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• One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

  Layne Redmond

  Powerful, Play, People

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Country, Distance

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• No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Hymns

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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