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I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live. -- Matt Tong
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. -- Justin Bieber
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together. -- James Genn
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat. -- Tony Palermo
I play a bunch of instruments. -- James Snyder
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. -- Billy Higgins
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. -- Humphrey Lyttelton
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing. -- John Otto
At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments. -- Mick Fleetwood
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.
'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.'
'Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. -- Chinua Achebe
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. -- David Byrne
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. -- Teena Marie
Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse. -- Tommy Lee
Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness. -- Mickey Hart
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. -- Neil Peart
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much. -- Alice Dellal
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better. -- Levon Helm
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician. -- Ian Paice
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. -- Norman Wisdom
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel. -- Damien Chazelle
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion -- Leonard Cohen
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio. -- Billy Sherwood
without noise of drums or -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Playing the drums hurts my back. -- Don Henley
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at. -- John Bonham
The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song. -- Patty Schemel
Whoever's drunkest gets on the drums. -- Al Jourgensen
At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used. -- Bryan Ferry
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. -- Araabmuzik
Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do. -- Chris Adler
The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later. -- Adam Clayton
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin -- Suzi Quatro
It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum. -- Charlie Watts
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money. -- Ringo Starr
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set. -- John Otto
As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. -- Damien Chazelle
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens. -- Ed Thigpen
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly. -- Suzy Bogguss
Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes. -- Tony Williams
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass. -- Eddie Van Halen
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. -- Dave Lombardo
I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic. -- Brian Chippendale
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. -- Dusan Kranjc
I was a drummer and I played the guitar. -- Jam Master Jay
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. -- Travis Barker
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house. -- Levon Helm
There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting. -- Matt Tong
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. -- Phil Collins
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. -- Shalom Harlow
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time. -- Thelonious Monk
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room. -- Ringo Starr
I am the best rock drummer on the planet. -- Ringo Starr
It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability. -- J Mascis
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. -- Evelyn Glennie
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. -- Lou Reed
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. -- Eric Hernandez
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. -- Caroline Corr
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. -- Patty Schemel
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer. -- Srikumar Rao
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm. -- Glenn Kotche
I don't think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music. -- Keith Moon
Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass -- Charles Bukowski
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. -- Janet Weiss
In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock. -- William Brewster
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. -- George Balanchine
I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat. -- Tre Cool
Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau
I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do. -- Taylor Lautner
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat. -- Pooja Ruprell
In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them. -- Lin Brehmer
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all. -- Chet Baker
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. -- Neil Peart
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery. -- Micky Dolenz
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. -- Max Weinberg
I am just a guy who plays drums. -- Bill Kreutzmann
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. -- Matt Tong
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer. -- Matty Mullins
Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance. -- Tommy Lee
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. -- Joseph Joubert
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. -- Jeff Lynne
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. -- Evelyn Glennie
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer. -- Eleanor Powell
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently. -- Jake Epstein
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. -- Imogen Heap
I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it. -- Bill Kreutzmann
I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.' -- Steve Burns
I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums. -- Mike Myers
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. -- Chino Moreno
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient. -- Aphex Twin
You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together. -- David Bischoff
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. -- John Dimaggio
I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing. -- Evelyn Glennie
You get a few of them together and don't be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in ... -- Thomm Quackenbush
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me. -- John Bonham
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. -- John Densmore
I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world. -- John Bonham
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
