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Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head. -- Chad Smith
Drums usually seem to tune themselves. -- Levon Helm
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. -- Mayer Hawthorne
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves. -- Patrick Stump
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me. -- Levon Helm
I donâ??t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music. -- Keith Moon
The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play. -- Suzi Quatro
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley! -- Dr. Seuss
I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it. -- Keith Emerson
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.''Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it. -- Tipper Gore
Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn} -- Diana Gabaldon
Playing my drums is therapy. -- Travis Barker
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. -- Taylor Hawkins
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. -- Phil Collins
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano. -- Lionel Hampton
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 way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill. -- Cara Delevingne
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music. -- Dave Grohl
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past. -- Don Henley
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. -- Ron Paul
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. -- Imogen Heap
Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me. -- Dave Lombardo
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
I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good. -- Travis Barker
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
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
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 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
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. -- Roger Waters
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in. -- Tommy Lee
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
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
U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.' -- Jimmy Chamberlin
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
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
Playing the drums hurts my back. -- Don Henley
I love drums and still play frequently. -- Adrian Belew
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. -- Lou Reed
I like drums, really, if they're under control. -- Earl Scruggs
I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record. -- Don Henley
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass. -- Eddie Van Halen
Most great records really start with the drums. -- Billy Corgan
I do play drums when I'm on tour. -- Norman Wisdom
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. -- Lou Reed
I've played drums in bands since I was 16. -- Miles Teller
I've been playing the drums since age nine. -- Bill Berry
I am just a guy who plays drums. -- Bill Kreutzmann
I just want to make music on the drums. -- Terry Bozzio
It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs. -- Rachel Trachtenburg
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon. -- Eddie Condon
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. -- Norman Wisdom
The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. -- Jenna Elfman
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums. -- Lou Reed
I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums -- Common
To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder. -- Keith Moon
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. -- Nolan Sotillo
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me. -- John Bonham
My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God. -- Keith Thibodeaux
It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. -- Mike Gordon
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. -- Virginia Woolf
My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. -- Jeremy London
My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums. -- Warren Zevon
I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry. -- Frank Turner
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers. -- Max Roach
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy. -- Vinny Appice
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone. -- Dolph Lundgren
Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness. -- Mickey Hart
The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect. -- Rand Paul
I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action. -- Tommy Bolin
The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song. -- Patty Schemel
She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge. -- Bryce Wilson
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. -- Lucas Grabeel
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. -- Arthur Koestler
Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy. -- William Shakespeare
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart. -- Jacques Roumain
Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll. -- Meat Loaf
Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them. -- Jan Hammer
I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano. -- Robbie Jones
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. -- Travis Barker
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way. -- Lee Grant
no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired. -- Margaret Case Harriman
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff. -- Ewan McGregor
Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event. -- Vinnie Colaiuta
I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15. -- Layne Staley
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. -- Phil Collins
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. -- Wynton Marsalis
Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you. -- James MacArthur
I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States. -- Althea Gibson
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me. -- Tommy Lee
I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up. -- Darren Criss
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. -- Grimes
The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured. -- Joey Sturgis
Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums. -- Ronald Perelman
If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person. -- Olivia Wilde
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin -- Suzi Quatro
My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer. -- Jonny Lang
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks. -- Steve Cropper
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! -- Dev Hynes
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums. -- Ikue Mori
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. -- Caroline Corr
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house. -- Levon Helm
I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun. -- Queen Latifah
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm. -- Malin Akerman
It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. -- Ryan Adams
There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. -- Chinua Achebe
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel. -- Damien Chazelle
I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing. -- Patty Schemel
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. -- William Shakespeare
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. -- Ringo Starr
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
Guardians of glory bless the rage of the raqs... in the ambiance that beats with drums of oriental stories. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. -- Eric Hernandez
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums. -- Neil Peart
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. -- David Byrne

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