Playing Drums Quotes

• I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

  Norman Wisdom

  Play, Piano, Horny

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

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• You only get better by playing.

  Buddy Rich

  Music, Get Better, Drumming

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• My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

  Travis Barker

  Mom, Dream, School

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• I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

  Buddy Rich

  Way, Influence, Drummer

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• 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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• I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Moon, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

  Moby

  Play, Careers, People

  "Moby takes sober look at his life as a musician". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. June 13, 2013.

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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 had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

  Jack Irons

  School, Play, Age

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• My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

  Brian Austin Green

  Father, Piano, Years

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• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

  Jeff Lynne

  Guitar, Play, Piano

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

  Queen Latifah

  Fun, Play, Relax

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• Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

  Buddy Rich

  Creativity, Thinking, Play

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• I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary school, and wanted to play drums. I started playing drums at 11, and that's where it all started.

  Patty Schemel

  School, Play, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

  Donnie Fritts

  Eight, Years, Band

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.

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• If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll."

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the front of the stage even when I was playing drums. I don't have anything against John Boy, I just wanted to be on the front of the stage.

  Eddie Montgomery

  Fun, Boys, Stuff

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• We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Years, Three

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• I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

  Brendon Urie

  School, Braces, Trumpets

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• I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

  Lukas Haas

  Guitar, Piano, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

  Jenna Elfman

  Memorable, Bob, Moments

  TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

  Phil Collins

  Luck, Knows

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

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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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• I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

  Layne Staley

  Sight, Singing

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• I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

  Mark Ronson

  Thinking, Jam, Records

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". weaa.org. April 16, 2015.

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