Top 124 Drumming Quotes & Sayings

For Slipknot, I'd say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.

I guess I did make my name out of my drumming, and I have the big drum sets, and I'm doing all these crazy, odd-time signatures, so, yeah, I guess drumming was very important to what made me popular.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

I have been drumming my whole life.

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

It took a thing like my father's death to make me decide that I actually wanted to pursue drumming.

When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

I really enjoyed playing that Blind stuff because it's a little more mathy and metal and as far as drumming goes, it's a bit more fun.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

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.

One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.

There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing the drums, which is what I really wanted to do. My mother put a stop to the drumming.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn't repeat itself. The players didn't stick to a format or formula.

I always try to hit a few areas when I'm making a record; I want the sounds to be experimental and exploratory, I want the drumming to be distinctive, and I want my voice to be able to shine through.

My drumming is always an experiment.

One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

Drumming is my middle name.

As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever piece of music I'm playing. I think the whole idea of drumming is to allow other people around you to more easily express themselves.

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.

Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Probably some of the most impressive drumming I've done is on the 'Far Beyond Driven' record.

I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

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.

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.

Drumming is so hard.

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

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.

That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.

There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

I was really into motocross. I started racing when I was 10 years old and did very, very well. That was my dream, if anything, more than drumming.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.