Drums Drummers Quotes & Sayings

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile. — Janet Weiss

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much
or more
*cymbal* players, as we are drummers. — Peter Erskine

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations. — Mindy Kaling

Reading is performance. The reader
the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk
performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there. — Mark Harmon

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

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

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people. — John W. Snow

For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another. — Peter Dickens

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f ... happy. — Noel Gallagher

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. — Miguel De Cervantes

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater. — Rikki Rockett

They worked hard at the things they enjoyed, they treated other people with respect, they followed their conscience, and they loved to laugh. They'd had their share of problems and made their share of mistakes, but neither had managed to do anything dumb enough to have any lingering effects. I was grateful for — Scott Pratt

Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world. — Claire Cook

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks. — Steve Cropper

I couldn't tell you how I felt before talking to Ava, and I felt like I couldn't talk to Ava until she got back. But then last night, there you where, and you looked so beautiful, and I couldn't stop myself anymore. But I shouldn't have done it, I should have stopped it, I should have put you first. I was trying to do the right thing, but all I did was fuck everything up. With you, with Ava, with your friendship ... — Lauren Barnholdt

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story. — Ira Glass

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them. — Tommy Lee

The moral, Lieutenant, is that there is no such thing as a deadly weapon. There are only deadly people, — David Weber

The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games. — Jacques Rogge

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

The greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help. — Diana Gabaldon

May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers. — Tina Fey

There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing. — Matt Smith

When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing. — Mike Joyce

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?' — Tommy Lee

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

When Jesus speaks about the world, he is very realistic. He speaks about wars and revolutions, earthquakes, plagues and famines, persecution and imprisonment, betrayal, hatred and assassinations. There is no suggestion at all that these signs of the world's darkness will ever be absent. But still, God's joy can be ours in the midst of it all. It is the joy of belonging to the household of God whose love is stronger than death and who empowers us to be in the world while already belonging to the kingdom of joy. — Henri J.M. Nouwen