The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.
I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
I've been playing the drums since age nine.
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums, the kid who wants to learn how to write a book, or the kid who wants to write a screenplay? We need to give them access to the arts. It's not fair that if you live in a different part of the country, you don't have the chance to learn. And it's not fair that if you don't have as much money, you don't have the chance to learn.
I love drums and still play frequently.
I do play drums when I'm on tour.
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.
Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums. ' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure.
Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.
There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.