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Drumming is my middle name. -- Ringo Starr
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at. -- John Bonham
I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. -- Neil Peart
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. -- Lionel Hampton
Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much. -- Yelawolf
But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on. -- Jonny Greenwood
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better. -- Dave Grohl
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life. -- Questlove
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse. -- Neil Peart
Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side. -- Mickey Hart
Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together. -- Babatunde Olatunji
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together. -- James Genn
Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do. -- Chris Adler
My drumming is always an experiment. -- Pat Mastelotto
I have been drumming my whole life. -- Jeremy Piven
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much. -- Alice Dellal
Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming. -- Pat Mastelotto
They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming. -- Keith Moon
I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm. -- Dick Dale
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy. -- Caroline Corr
No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality. -- Aldous Huxley
When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drumming. It frees you up to not care how well you do. -- Trevor St. John
You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic. -- Damian Marley
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords. -- Jonny Greenwood
A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about. -- Mickey Hart
I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents. -- Sean Berdy
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
I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. -- Phil Collins
Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing. -- Layne Redmond
I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters. -- Marian Keyes
I miss the physicality of drumming. There's immediateness about it that I'm always striving for in my acting. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession. I certainly wish I could spend more time pursuing music. It feels like a part of me I'm neglecting. -- Trevor St. John
It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. -- Neil Peart
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing. -- Michael Azerrad
I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums. -- Phil Collins
The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the modern world. With fierce drumming and passionate singing they light up everyone around them and spread the deep joy of God's names. An evening with the Kirtaniyas will never be forgotten! -- Jai Uttal
My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once. -- Lauren Oliver
The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom of religion, of association, of disassociation, and believe they should be treated with respect. I wouldn't dream of drumming them out of the military, firing them for their faith, tearing up their relationships, or taking their children away from them. The favor, alas, is not returned. -- Andrew Sullivan
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. -- Neil Peart
Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words." -- James Joyce
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio. -- Neil Young
There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it. -- Suzy Kassem
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. -- Bill Vaughan
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling. -- Black Elk
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off. -- Anne Sexton
That's why i started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away. -- Brian Chippendale
I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff. -- Eric Hernandez
I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well. -- Justin Bieber
I really enjoyed playing that Blind stuff because it's a little more mathy and metal and as far as drumming goes, it's a bit more fun. -- Reed Mullin
Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop. -- Eric Hernandez
I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself. -- Lauren Mayberry
I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming. -- Reed Mullin
When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body. -- Mickey Hart
The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them. -- Bruno Mars
Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off. -- Ringo Starr

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