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I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer. -- Keith Moon
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. -- Jason Schwartzman
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. -- Eric Hernandez
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes -- Anne McCaffrey
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! -- Philip Selway
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. -- Dana Reinhardt
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 seneless with his own drumsticks. -- Dana Reinhardt
I wanted to be a professional drummer. -- Walter Payton
A drummer is usually like the backbone. -- Brody Dalle
March to the beat of your own drummer. -- Henry David Thoreau
I was a drummer and I played the guitar. -- Jam Master Jay
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. -- Adrian Belew
I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too. -- Lou Gramm
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me. -- Pat Morita
Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. -- Damien Chazelle
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. -- Taylor Hawkins
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer. -- Bob Seger
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom. -- Gary Cole
I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin. -- Nina Hagen
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. -- Phil Collins
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer. -- Wayne Coyne
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band. -- Brooke Burke
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. -- Ringo Starr
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. -- Damien Chazelle
I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool. -- Q-Tip
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.' -- Dave Grohl
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
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
If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer. -- Dave Lombardo
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play. -- Buddy Rich
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town. -- Herbie Mann
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart. -- Brent Scowcroft
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
Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup. -- Mitch Hedberg
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. -- Billy Joel
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
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. -- Hunter Hayes
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. -- Buddy Rich
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
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer. -- Randy Castillo
I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable. -- Charlie Watts
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
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today. -- Buddy Rich
I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums. -- Nat Wolff
I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band. -- Ashton Irwin
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano. -- Caleb Landry Jones
It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently. -- Moby
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper. -- Taylor Hawkins
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. -- Thomas Sangster
Make the drummer sound good. -- Steve Lacy
Everybody marches to a different drummer. -- Hugh Hefner
I think I was the best drummer! -- Phil Collins
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. -- Max Roach
I can't consider myself a drummer any more. -- Phil Collins
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer. -- Eleanor Powell
Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. -- Hal Sparks
I am the best rock drummer on the planet. -- Ringo Starr
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo. -- Bessie Smith
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician. -- Henry Rollins
I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world. -- John Bonham
Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now. -- Patricia Barber
I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world. -- Keith Moon
Ringo (Starr) isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles -- Paul McCartney
I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat. -- Tre Cool
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos. -- Greg Saunier
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician. -- Ian Paice
He's (Ringo Starr) not even the best drummer in the Beatles.... -- Paul McCartney
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer. -- Ringo Starr
There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one. -- e. e. cummings
My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars. -- John Bonham
It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me. -- Larry Mullen, Jr.
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer. -- Srikumar Rao
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck. -- Tre Cool
We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer. -- John Lennon
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat. -- Tony Palermo
But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band. -- Buddy Rich
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way. -- Buddy Rich
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat. -- Pooja Ruprell
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer. -- Pharoah Sanders
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all. -- Chet Baker
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time. -- Thelonious Monk
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going. -- Chet Baker
The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. -- Chet Baker
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. -- Matt Cameron
A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. -- Roseanne Barr
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure. -- Max Roach
Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. -- Rachel Trachtenburg
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. -- Buddy Rich
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm. -- Glenn Kotche
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. -- Phil Collins
I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way. -- Lee Grant
I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum. -- Anthony Langston
I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer. -- J. Robbins
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. -- Gunther Schuller
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. -- Phil Collins
My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters. -- Rachael Ray
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles -- John Lennon
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles -- John Lennon
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer. -- Bjork
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens. -- Ed Thigpen
You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band. -- Malin Akerman
Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl. -- Neil Young
Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer." -- Neil Peart
Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school. -- John Bonham
I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters. -- Dave Grohl
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals! -- Bill Bruford
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum. -- Taylor Hawkins
I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts. -- Demetri Martin
My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet. -- Aaron Bruno
Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer. -- Eva Sloan

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