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Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes. -- Tony Williams
Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window. -- Steven Adler
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
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. -- Stewart Copeland
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. -- Bill Bruford
I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one. -- Caroline Corr
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself. -- Travis Barker
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. -- Tre Cool
As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else. -- Mel Torme
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em. -- Gene Krupa
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum. -- Taylor Hawkins
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. -- Tre Cool
At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world. -- Keith Moon
I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers. -- Steven Adler
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
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band. -- Matt Cameron
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. -- Buddy Rich
I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night. -- Matt Cameron
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
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers. -- Buddy Rich
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me. -- Buddy Rich
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers. -- Buddy Rich
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. -- Jimmy Page
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. -- Ken Burns
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers. -- Greg Iles
I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was. -- Dave Brubeck
Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen. -- Benny Green
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
There aren't enough girl drummers. -- Tobi Vail
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. -- Noel Redding
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself, -- Travis Barker
I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them. -- Sean Kinney
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery. -- Micky Dolenz
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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them. -- Lin Brehmer
I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers. -- Thighpaulsandra
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. -- John Densmore
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists. -- Ringo Starr
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks. -- Steve Cropper
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens. -- Ed Thigpen
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack. -- Bill Bruford
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces. -- Dave Grohl
The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers. -- Peter Erskine
Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording. -- Slim Moon
I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play. -- Patty Schemel
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy. -- Noel Gallagher
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat. -- Bruce Springsteen
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. -- Jamie Muir
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other. -- Max Roach
Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater. -- Rikki Rockett
People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something. -- Chad Smith
When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing. -- Mike Joyce
There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being in a band. And a lot of comics play instruments. -- David Cross

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