Best 84 quotes in «drummer quotes» category

PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

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.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

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.

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Banu menjadikan kegilaannya menabuh drum sebagai pelarian dari banyak masalahnya

Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.

Baby...drummers bang all night long!

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.

DRUMMER… A Uniquely Creative Musician with Limitless Skills.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

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

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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.

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

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

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

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

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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