A Quote by Chet Baker

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Chet Baker

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Chet Baker
American - Musician
December 23, 1929 - May 13, 1988

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

J. Robbins

My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.

Aaron Bruno

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Keith Moon

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

Rachael Ray

My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and gig as much as possible.

Sarah Harmer

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

Neil Peart

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

Vinnie Paul

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

Srikumar Rao

I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.

Dave Clark

I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be a drummer, but I got really good at it. I always feel like I'm an actor playing the drums." His real calling was that he was going to be a magician. That's what he felt like he wanted to do. If you decide to act like a journalist, you'll probably be a better journalist than just being a journalist. What you're doing is, you're taking the executive role and stepping outside yourself so that you're able to make more objective decisions.

Matt Dillon

LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.

Mike D

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

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Jason Schwartzman

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

Colin Greenwood

I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago. He was a tremendous slideman. I never saw him do anything other than play the slide. I never just saw him just use his hand. He always used a slide. He had a little-bitty drummer we called "Shorty". He was about that high [hand gesture]. And he was his drummer. That's all he had was a slide guitar and a drummer.

Junior Wells

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

Buddy Rich

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