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Drumming is so hard.
Drumming is my middle name.
You only get better by playing.
I have been drumming my whole life.
My drumming is always an experiment.
You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.
Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.
At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.
All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.
Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.
There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.
Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.
Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.
Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
It took a thing like my father's death to make me decide that I actually wanted to pursue drumming.
I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.
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.
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.
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.
That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.
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.
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drumming. It frees you up to not care how well you do.
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.
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.
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.
You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents.
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.
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.
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.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
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.
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.
The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.
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.