A Quote by Srikumar Rao

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

Srikumar Rao

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Before Drummer Follow Hear Own Your

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Srikumar Rao
Indian - Educator
Born: April 11, 1951

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

Keith Moon

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

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

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

Charlie Hunter

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

Aaron Bruno

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

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

Chet Baker

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

Dave Clark

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

Vinnie Paul

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

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

Dana Reinhardt

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Nat Wolff

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brothers a drummer and Ive always been jealous that hes such a good drummer. I always try to play but its always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Nat Wolff

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.