Best 84 quotes in «drummer quotes» category

Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro's tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek's subtle bass line as it worked its way in. After another few seconds Will came in, slow at first, but racing along to match the others' pace. When their combined efforts seemed unable to get any heavier, David jumped into the mix. As the sound got nice and heavy, Bekka began to rock back-and-forth onstage. In front of her, hundreds of metal-lovers began to jump and gyrate to their music. She matched their movements for a moment, enjoying the connection that was being made, before stepping over to the keyboard that had been set up behind her. Sliding her microphone into an attached cradle, she assumed her position and got ready. Right on cue, all the others stopped playing, throwing the auditorium into an abrupt silence. Before the crowd could react, however, Bekka's fingers began to work the keys, issuing a rhythm that was much softer and slower than what had been built up. The audience's violent thrash-dance calmed at that moment and they began to sway in response. Bekka smiled to herself. This is what she lived for.

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

DRUMMER… A Uniquely Creative Musician with Limitless Skills.

Fuck being bored. You shouldn't ever be bored. You can always read and be smarter. You can always work out and be in better shape. You can always play your instrument and get better at it. Your space can always be cleaner. Blue- collar work is when you work with your hands-white-collar work is behind a desk. I'm not as grimy as my father, who made his living with a wrench, but everything I have comes from working with my hands.

I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star.

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

My inner Jiminy was screaming at me to stop playing with fire again, but I was a moth drawn to a flaming hot drummer.

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.

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.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.

The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was a leap beyond the spouting whale, with more figures, a six-bladed propeller, and a much more complex system of rods and pivots that made the instruments dip and rise as if the musicians were marching.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

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

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.