Drummer Quotes
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I`m not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I`m a drummer that sings a bit.
Phil Collins
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When I`m playing a song I`ll often think about how another drummer might play it, and try to be that player in my performance of the song. Often I`ll think, `How would Keith Moon play this?` And I`ll don my Keith Moon hat. For another song I`ll think abou...
Phil Collins
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[Asked by a reporter if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world]: In the world? He`s not even the best drummer in The Beatles!
John Lennon
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[Asked by a reporter if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world]: In the world? He`s not even the best drummer in The Beatles!
John Lennon
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[about his early drumming years with The Beatles] I started to be an engineer but I banged me thumb on the first day. I became a drummer because it was the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer I know I`m no good. [John Lennon] taught...
Ringo Starr
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[about his early drumming years with The Beatles] I started to be an engineer but I banged me thumb on the first day. I became a drummer because it was the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer I know I`m no good. [John Lennon] taught...
Ringo Starr
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Live Aid (1985) (TV) was pretty shambolic. We came together and rehearsed with a drummer we`d never met before and then we were joined by Phil Collins, who we`d never played with before, on this great Live Aid (1985) (TV) stage. We went there with the spi...
Jimmy Page
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I secretly want to replace Meg White (of The White Stripes). I want to be a chick drummer!
Michelle Branch
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A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
Eleanor Powell
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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He`s busy. And I`m busy. I don`t need the dough, though. But having said that, there`s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn`t great.
Aimee Mann
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Who knew that he was gonna be a drummer? We just freaked out. It`s weird, and it`s a blessing. ... He was the hyper guy of the family, and the baby, too. My dad said he needed ... something to use all that energy. The first 30 minutes he started playing, ...
Henry Garza
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When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
Brooke Burke
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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
Robert Wyatt
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We`ve only played 10 or 12 shows with Matt. Markku left a month and a half, maybe two, ago. We met Matt through Chris, our drummer. They both come from up north (the Bay area), and Matt was playing in a band called Tsunami Bomb. He was great, so we called...
Dan Estrin
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We`ve got some athletes who can make plays. Denzel Gayden had an outstanding ballgame. Denzel flip flopped from defensive end to linebacker. Along with Ennis Sullivan and Chris Drummer, those three guys are seniors and guys that we`ll depend on to lead us...
John Carr
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Wayne Coyne
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There`s only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn`t sing his song. Because for me, it wasn`t a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire
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That`s the thing that we said about the horn before: it`s a focus issue. It`s like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer`s playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
Charlie Hunter
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That`s the thing that we said about the horn before: it`s a focus issue. It`s like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer`s playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
Charlie Hunter
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Primarily I was doing the music here alone in the house, anyway, with the drummer. He helped with the engineering and plays on almost every song.
Stephen Malkmus
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Nowadays, the producer does everything, right down to telling the engineer what mics to use. Spector was more hands-on with the music side, but didn`t touch the desk [recording console]. He`d tell the bass player what to do, the drummer what beats to hit....
James Walsh
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My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I`m so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I`d get my drummer beat them up.
Brian Molko
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Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
Ewan McGregor
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Joe`s been my drummer for 14 years, and we`ve been buddies for six years.
John Mayall
Source: brainyquote.com
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It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I`ve been working with for the last 20 years. He`s the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
Diana Krall
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In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
David Amram
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If Daniel is worth his salt he`ll make something of himself on his own. Maybe then he can do something with his father. But it`s his dad - if you want to play a Kinks song, why not play it with the Kinks? Why play it with me and (drummer) Brad (Hargreaves...
Rich Mullins
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I`m the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
Tre Cool
Source: brainyquote.com
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Robert Wyatt
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I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
Johnny Rivers
