Drumming Quotes

You only get better by playing.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

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.

Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

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.

Drumming is my middle name.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

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.

Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

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.

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.

Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.

There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.

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.

I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it.

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.

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.

I have been drumming my whole life.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.