Top 100 Quotes About Drums

#1. A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Levon Helm

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#2. Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

Noel Gallagher

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#3. Playing my drums is therapy.

Travis Barker

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#4. He took a step back, his wings beating the air like mighty drums. As long as the people who matter most know the truth, I don't care about the rest. Get some sleep.

Sarah J. Maas

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#5. The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar ... whatever it is.

Taylor Hanson

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#6. I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

Lucas Grabeel

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#7. Nothing is lost ... only changed.

Diana Gabaldon

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#8. The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

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#9. My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

Cara Delevingne

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#10. You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Lou Reed

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#11. Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

Virginia Woolf

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#12. If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

George Bernard Shaw

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#13. I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

Jim Sturgess

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#14. This tottered ensign of my ancestors
Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea
Whereof we got the name of Mortimer,
Will I advance upon these castle-walls.
Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport,
And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston!

Christopher Marlowe

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#15. I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

Tommy Lee

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#16. My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

Keith Thibodeaux

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#17. I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

Tommy Bolin

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#18. I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.

Panda Bear

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#19. We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#20. She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#21. I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Neil Peart

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#22. Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

Jack White

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#23. Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

Ikue Mori

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#24. And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute ...

Tom Stoppard

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#25. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#26. My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and harps, timbales and drums. I can only recognize myself as symphony.

Fernando Pessoa

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#27. The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car ... everything else is merely colours.

Suzi Quatro

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#28. I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

Queen Latifah

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#29. How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever
The drums of Pictdom sound?

Robert E. Howard

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#30. The drums were so near that the beat crept under his skin and set his hands to twitching.

George R R Martin

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#31. As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Mel Torme

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#32. It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

Damien Chazelle

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#33. 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

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#34. First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Ringo Starr

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#35. I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

Phil Collins

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#36. We are drawn to repetition. We can watch the tide rolling for hours into shore. The clouds skittering across the sky. We can listen to the pulsing beat of bongo drums and are drawn magnetically to the slap, slap, slap of a girl being chastised. The human is a mystery, even too himself.

Chloe Thurlow

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#37. It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

Mike Gordon

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#38. You get a few of them together and don't be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in ...

Thomm Quackenbush

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#39. Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.

Vinnie Colaiuta

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#40. I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

Randy Castillo

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#41. Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the front of the stage even when I was playing drums. I don't have anything against John Boy, I just wanted to be on the front of the stage.

Eddie Montgomery

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#42. Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

Lou Reed

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#43. The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

Frankie Cosmos

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#44. 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

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#45. I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

Ike Turner

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#46. I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

Cliff Martinez

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#47. You play 30 instruments. What's the toughest? Drums, just because I don't get to play them a whole lot. I

Anonymous

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#48. I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.

Vanessa Hudgens

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#49. People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

Larry Mullen Jr.

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#50. If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.

J. D. Souther

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#51. The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

Walt Whitman

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#52. So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

Ikue Mori

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#53. All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.

John Hughes

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#54. I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

Jack Irons

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#55. My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

Jill Sobule

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#56. 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

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#57. I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute ... Just not well.

Kat Dennings

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#58. We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Mary Calderone

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#59. I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

Jenny Lewis

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#60. I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

Norman Wisdom

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#61. I remember the first time somebody played me Janis Joplin. My friend Donna put on Janis Joplin, and she said, 'You're like her.' At the time, I wasn't even a singer; I was a drummer. I just wanted to play the drums.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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#62. I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

Travis Barker

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#63. I am just a guy who plays drums.

Bill Kreutzmann

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#64. I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

Josh Homme

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#65. I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

Lee Grant

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#66. My heart drums with gratitude.
My thoughts sing
with hope.

Margarita Engle

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#67. If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

Lenny Kravitz

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#68. Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.

Diana Gabaldon

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#69. My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Dennis Wilson

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#70. When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

Dave Grohl

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#71. I still believe in the old-school show thing no frills, no fancy equipment just a guitar and some amps and some drums, and throw it out there and do it the best you can in a live sense, because it's easy to make records. But the live show is where you really show if you've got the balls to do it.

Shelby Lynne

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#72. The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

Steven Adler

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#73. We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

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#74. The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

Patty Schemel

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#75. If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

Olivia Wilde

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#76. As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.

Glenn Kotche

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#77. Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

Shannon L. Alder

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#78. A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Anthony De Mello

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#79. This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

Kanye West

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#80. Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Curtis Jackson

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#81. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Samantha Barks

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#82. Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass

Charles Bukowski

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#83. Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Ronald Perelman

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#84. It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

David

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#85. Drums were my first instrument.

Dick Dale

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#86. People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

John Bonham

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#87. Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

Eddie Condon

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#88. 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

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#89. I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

Mac DeMarco

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#90. Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

Levon Helm

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#91. Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.

Rick Allen

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#92. I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

Moonshine Noire

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#93. I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer
and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

Herbie Hancock

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#94. I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

Blake Michael

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#95. There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.

Courtney M. Privett

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#96. Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Johann Gottfried Herder

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#97. You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

John Darnielle

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#98. A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

Vinny Appice

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#99. Tires. Drums. Steel cages.
Your place is like Disneyland!

Geonard Yleana

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#100. It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

Rachel Trachtenburg

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