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Quotes About Drumming

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.
~ Bruno Mars
God calls His people to celebrate Him with singing and playing, and then He promises to do a little drumming of His own, on the back of the enemy!
~ Terry Law
Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock? She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free. I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
~ Nora Roberts
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
~ Chad Smith
I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes and you got to breathe.
~ John Densmore
My heart was beating like it was being played by a one-armed Japanese Ondekoza drummer pounding slowly on his seven-hundred-pound drum with a caveman's club at twilight.
~ Walter Mosley
Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess." - Layne Redmond, When the Drummers were Women
~ Layne Redmond
Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.
~ Joey Kramer
If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.
~ Joey Jordison
My heart is making a dull, drumming sound and I'm thinking that my life is a waiting game and I'm sinkin' all the while.
~ Henry Rollins
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
~ Levon Helm
I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.
~ Bill Kreutzmann
I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.
~ Eric Hernandez
If you want to strive toward something, just listen to John Bonham.
~ Bill Ward
Alex Van Halen... I loved his playing because he had so much energy; he made those songs exciting, along with everything else that went with him.
~ Vinnie Paul
I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.
~ Todd Rundgren
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
~ Lionel Hampton
That night, the sky poured out such torrents that the city was a drum set, every surface a source of rhythms, pavements and windows and canvas awnings, street signs and parked cars, Dumpsters throbbing like tom-toms, garbage-can lids swishing as the wind swirled bursts of rain in imitation of a drummer brush-stroking the batter head of a snare.
~ Dean Koontz
For me, it's always easier playing with a drummer.
~ John Petrucci
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
~ Alice Dellal
Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
~ Tommy Lee
There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.
~ Robert Trujillo
Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears
~ Louis MacNeice
I never have liked these here windy nights. These here nights be turble hummy and drummy to me pore head.
~ John Cowper Powys