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I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy. — Fred Armisen

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats. — Gustav Ejstes

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

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. — Eric Hernandez

I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums. — Mike Myers

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

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can. — Alexa Chung

Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to day. — William Shakespeare

Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit. — Helen Simonson

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. — Jeff Lynne

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment. — Don Henley

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well. — Justin Bieber

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. — Dave Grohl

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. — Phillip Phillips

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. — Arthur Koestler

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. — David Byrne

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction. — Mike Joyce

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability. — J Mascis

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them. — Tommy Lee

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. — Wynton Marsalis

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. — Psy

I've played drums in bands since I was 16. — Miles Teller

Playing my drums is therapy. — Travis Barker

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing. — Charlie Watts

the song of the dead
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums — Antonio Cisneros

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

Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, and those magnificent destriers shit everywhere. — George R R Martin

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that. — Phil Collins

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. — Virginia Woolf

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums. — Matthew Morrison

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well. — Marnie Stern

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15. — Layne Staley

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. — Mayer Hawthorne

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon. — Eddie Condon

Playing the drums hurts my back. — Don Henley

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel. — Damien Chazelle

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. — Mike Gordon

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

I do play drums when I'm on tour. — Norman Wisdom

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own. — Audie Murphy

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums. — Lou Reed

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT. — Henry Miller

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. — Grimes

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me. — Levon Helm

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. — Phil Collins

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

To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder. — Keith Moon

I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun. — Queen Latifah

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. — Dan Auerbach

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. — Jenna Elfman

Nothing is lost ... only changed. — Diana Gabaldon

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. — AraabMuzik

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. — Lou Reed

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy. — Aberjhani

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back. — Peter Criss

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. — William Shakespeare

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. — Taylor Hawkins

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. — Jeremy London

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

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums. — Lykke Li

I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band. — Levon Helm

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly. — Moonshine Noire

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

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure. — Brian Posehn

I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums. — Drake Bell

Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll. — Meat Loaf

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy. — Vinny Appice

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

Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks?
Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up? — Kelley Armstrong

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums. — Ronald Perelman

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

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently. — Jake Epstein

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments. — Dave Matthews

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin — Suzi Quatro

Their calls competed with the singing of the street musicians and the sounds of drums, angklungs, sulings, and ouds. — Corina Bomann

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. — Steve Reich

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

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music. — Pat Mastelotto

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. — Ryan Adams

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. — Lou Reed

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later. — Adam Clayton

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. — Dave Matthes

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums. — Warren Zevon

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes

People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me. — John Bonham

Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals! — Billy Bush

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday. — Cameron Monaghan

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States. — Althea Gibson

No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired. — Margaret Case Harriman

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. — Nolan Sotillo

without noise of drums or — Henryk Sienkiewicz

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you. — John Hughes

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

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people. — Benny Blanco