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.

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.

Eric Carmen

It's not just one of these reunions where it's the original drummer and three guys you never heard of.

I told him it didn't matter. I had Michael Drum on me.

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.

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.'

Do you want a drum roll? Yes. I think he gets better every day, he really does.

James Mercer

I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

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.

You should get a hearing aid. It sounded like the drum solo to Stairway to Heaven to me.

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.

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

Philip Selway

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!

To a degree, the Japanese market has been marching to its own drummer for a number of years due to its economic difficulties.

T.K. is ready to get back out and play, but his drums are pretty much a mess, so we have to get him some new ones.

There's not going to be a drum roll or anything like that. I think you'll see the (spring) game and you'll realize who the No. 1 quarterback is going to be. If you want some official announcement, I'll do it after the game.

Brittany Howard

There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.

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.

Ringo Starr

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

Ringo Starr

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

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

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.

Hip-hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat. There's not much of a visual component. There's no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.

Hip hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat, ... Theres not much of a visual component. Theres no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.

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.

Jeremy Piven

I have been drumming my whole life.

Max Roach

he American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

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.