1.
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
Duke Ellington
2.
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
Keith Moon
3.
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
Thelonious Monk
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It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Chet Baker
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Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
Babatunde Olatunji
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Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
Chet Baker
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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
Max Roach
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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
John Bonham
10.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
Phil Collins
11.
That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
Elvin Jones
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I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
Max Roach
13.
My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
John Bonham
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I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
Tre Cool
16.
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
Ian Paice
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Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
Pat Morita
18.
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
19.
I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Buddy Rich
21.
It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
22.
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
Miles Davis
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There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
e. e. cummings
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
Isaac Hanson
25.
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
Dave Grohl
26.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
James Brown
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Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles
Jasper Carrott
28.
I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
Lou Gramm
29.
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
Brody Dalle
30.
Everybody marches to a different drummer.
Hugh Hefner
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PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.
Al Murray
32.
I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.
Nina Hagen
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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Buddy Rich
34.
We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
John Lennon
35.
I can't consider myself a drummer any more.
Phil Collins
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Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
Neil Peart
37.
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
Ringo Starr
38.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole
39.
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
Bill Bruford
40.
In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
Miles Davis
42.
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
43.
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Tre Cool
44.
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
Pharoah Sanders
45.
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
Micky Dolenz
46.
I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
Sean Kinney
47.
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
Miles Davis
48.
There aren't enough girl drummers.
Tobi Vail
49.
I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
Caroline Corr
50.
As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
Mel Torme