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Drummer Quotes

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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

Authors on Drummer Quotes: Miles Davis Phil Collins Ringo Starr Bill Bruford John Bonham Tre Cool Buddy Rich Chet Baker Max Roach Bessie Smith Mel Torme Neil Peart Slim Moon Dave Grohl Jay Watson Narada Michael Walden Tobi Vail Pharoah Sanders Nina Hagen Stevie Ray Vaughan Walter Payton Michael Bland Isaac Hanson Srikumar Rao Duke Ellington Malin Akerman Patricia Barber Henry David Thoreau Stefon Harris Rachel Trachtenburg Micky Dolenz e. e. cummings Jam Master Jay
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

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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
Bessie Smith

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I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
Phil Collins

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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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My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
John Bonham

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I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
Max Roach

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I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
Tre Cool

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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
Pat Morita

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To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
Ian Paice

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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Buddy Rich

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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

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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
Walter Payton

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It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
Larry Mullen, Jr.

22.
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

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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

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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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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

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I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
Lou Gramm

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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

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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

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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
John Lennon

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A drummer is usually like the backbone.
Brody Dalle

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Everybody marches to a different drummer.
Hugh Hefner

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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
Ringo Starr

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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

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In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
Miles Davis

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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
Jam Master Jay

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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

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I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Tre Cool

42.
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
Pharoah Sanders

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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole

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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
Bill Bruford

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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
Miles Davis

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There aren't enough girl drummers.
Tobi Vail

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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
Caroline Corr

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As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
Mel Torme

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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Noel Redding

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I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!
Michael Bland