But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Buddy Rich
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As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
Ray Stevens
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If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.
Yasmine Hamdan
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We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.
Ted Dwane
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
Narada Michael Walden
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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
Damien Chazelle
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Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.
John Mayall
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I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
St. Vincent
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I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
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I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
Michael Pena
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It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
Diana Krall
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You have to be very strong to play my music. The drummer has to be in great shape. Same with the guitarist. You have to be a monster to play with Chubby!
Chubby Checker
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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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We've got the pretty-boy lead singer and the fat, dumpy drummer, and I'm the zany guitarist. Sure, we've played up the image at times. But it's the music that matters most.
Rick Nielsen
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
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My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.
David Sanborn
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
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I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.
Lee Grant
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Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I let somebody sing something doesn't mean they're more important than the bass player or the keyboard player or the drummer.
Yngwie Malmsteen
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I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
Taylor Hawkins
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
Malin Akerman
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.
Matty Mullins
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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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