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Drummers are tough.
Both my brothers are drummers.
I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.
Drummers are like sharks. They have to move all the time or they die.
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.
When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.
All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.
I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums.
As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.
There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of the reason.
At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.
Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.
I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.
I've never thought too much of 'Rolling Stone.' The first thing I'd do is look at about 50 or 60 of the drummers they have ahead of me and go, 'Oh yeah, right!'
As a drummer, I always approach things as, 'I want to play just enough to keep other drummers interested, but not enough to go over the average listener's head.'
I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.
In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
Ringo is incredible. He's the greatest. Simon Kirke is great as well, so is Ian Paice. All of these British drummers from the '60s are great. They were big influences on me.
With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.
A lot of young drummers have a tendency to really overplay. Sometimes simple is better, and the notes that aren't played between the spaces are bigger than the notes that are.
You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!
The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.
When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.
There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.