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Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
I do play drums when I'm on tour.
I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.
The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening.
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
I've played drums in bands since I was 16.
I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.
There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.
The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.
Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.
I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.
The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much
or more
*cymbal* players, as we are drummers.
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.
I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever piece of music I'm playing. I think the whole idea of drumming is to allow other people around you to more easily express themselves.
When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Whoever's drunkest gets on the drums.
Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.
Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
without noise of drums or
Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables ... I never felt the need to pull out drums.
Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.
I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.
Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed
Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
If you hear a different drummer, don't march - dance!
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
I play a bunch of instruments.
It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum.
I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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.
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.
Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass
Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
My drumming is always an experiment.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
What's really good is African drum music.
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
You're ... in ... the ... Dol ... drums, wailed a voice that sounded far away.
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.
My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that.
As the drummer, I know that drums fully support the band. Their rhythm keeps things within the pulse and contributes to the overall energy of each performance. I am a very balanced person and I realize that through my personal level of balance, I also outwardly balance Stjepan and Luka.
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.
It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.
In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
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.
Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.