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If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
I'm the best live rock drummer. That's what I think of myself. That's who I am. I can't help it.
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role anyway.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.
I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.
Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
I don't think I've ever met a drummer who didn't tell me that my dad was an influence. He's a tough act to follow.
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.
Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.
Growing up my heroes were American motocross riders. I didn't want to be a drummer; I wanted to be a motocross rider.
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
I know I live in the shadow of the greatest drummer in the world, so it's nice to have a bit of sunshine now and again.
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
I had success as a drummer and was doing very well - I could send my mom to Best Buy and she could go buy my album, you know?
One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.
I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums, and I love music.
Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.
I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.
I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.
My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.
My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.
I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.