Keith Moon
Musician, Drummer
"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer."
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Drummer
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Bessie Smith
Singer
"I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo."
Buddy Rich
Jazz Musician
"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."
e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one."
Miles Davis
Musician
"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."
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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."
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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."
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"But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band."
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"We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer."
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"When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer."
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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."
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"I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom."
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"In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers."
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"I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists."
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"Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat."
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"I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo."
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"Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording."
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"Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer."
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"I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum."
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"I am the best rock drummer on the planet."
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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."
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"I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young."
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"I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer."
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"I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top."
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"Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician."
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