Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chet Baker

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Chet Baker

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Lee Grant

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

Taylor Lautner

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.

Dave Grohl

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

Charlie Watts

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Evelyn Glennie

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Vanilla Ice

I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

e. e. cummings

There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

Taylor Hawkins

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Sheila E.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

Jeremih

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Gabrielle Aplin

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

Andrew Bird

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.

Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

We raised all that money in one evening and we had great music. I take my drums to musical events and play with jam bands. We just jam... it's a very tight community.

Alex Kapranos

Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine in one hand and the floor tom between his legs -- just to experiment with different ways of setting up.

Roger Moore

I think they were trying to drum up a little news that I might still be alive,

I was kind of nervous during the drum break. But I didn't mess up, so that was good." ()

With the drum and the skin of the antelope all the gods, that sway the battle, have scared away the enemies.

Pat Mastelotto

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Ikue Mori

That was the most I could pull out from these three drum machines with sound and texture and orchestrations- that's what I'm trying to do.

Beck

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

Brian Setzer

Those drum parts were so integral to that original rockabilly. People don't play that anymore. A lot of those original drum fills were kept.

John Lennon

The Legendary Life of a Rock Star Drummer

People can drum up all the negativity they can drum up, and there's not one thing negative about this. People are in need, and we're happy to help them.

Mitchel Musso

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Drumming seems to ease barriers. Whatever the differences are, they seem to melt away.

The weather held off to get it in. The pipe and drums are always great. It's good to see the bands, but I can do without the politicians.

Ron Paul

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.