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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
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The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.
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An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.
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I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.
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I have been drumming my whole life.
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Most great records really start with the drums.
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As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
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Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
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Make the drummer sound good.
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without noise of drums or
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strings, piano and brass she often
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Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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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.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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You play 30 instruments. What's the toughest? Drums, just because I don't get to play them a whole lot. I
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The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much
or more
*cymbal* players, as we are drummers.
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The dichotomy of a drummer: worshiped but forgotten.
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The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.
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Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano's martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past
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The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
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Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.
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The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
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I love drums and still play frequently.
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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.
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... the violin - that most human of all instruments ...
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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.
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Music has been a part of the cultural expression of virtually every culture ever studied. It may even extend into prehistoric times. A 35,000-year-old flute made from bird bone has been discovered,
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There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.
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I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
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Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass
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Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists.
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I play a bunch of instruments.
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Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music. At first it only tickled her. But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. She felt the vibrations penetrate her muscles, pulsing in waves, until they rattled her bones and made her inner organs hum.
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In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.
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The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to ... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.
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My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
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Music is a personal response to vibration.
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Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time, and one of those is the key-based percussion instrument.
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I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
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Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!
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I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
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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.
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There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
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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.
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Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.
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In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.
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But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
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When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
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My drumming is always an experiment.
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Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.
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I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion.
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Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
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I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.
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I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat
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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.
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Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
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A drummer is usually like the backbone.
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Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.
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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
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Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin
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THE BODY, IN AND THROUGH WHICH WE BREATHE, move, communicate and reproduce is an amazing instrument in many varied physical ways.
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I love the French horn.
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The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening.
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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.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
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Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
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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.
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If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
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Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
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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.
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You've got to learn your instrument.
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Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
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The strings all soar,
The reeds implore,
The brasses roar with notes galore.
It's music that we all adore
It's what we go to concerts for.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I return my attention my drum
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Whatever clunks your cowbell,
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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.
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Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
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A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
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I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.
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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.
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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.
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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
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We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
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I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.