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I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
Ashton Irwin
School
Old
Look
Drummers
Lot
Up
Old School
If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.
Neil Peart
Musicians
People
Whatever
Rich
Seeing
Gene
Inspirations
Buddy
Like
Drummers
Him
Were
Up
Want
Them
Show
Play
Early
Tonight
Tonight Show
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!
Philip Selway
You
Important
Rules
Able
Never
Part
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Smashing
Drummer
Drummers
Drumming
Another
Up
Get
Being
Pace
Gonna
Rooms
Keep
Ever
Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.
Tony Williams
Everybody
Write
Drummers
Least
Believes
Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.
Benny Green
Me
Experience
Other
Gave
Gigs
Able
Part
Feel
Drummers
Around
Making
Integrate
Going
Just
Happen
While
Realize
Playing
Chance
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
Bill Bruford
Fabulous
Plus
Head
New
Drummers
Am
Being
Pack
Bill
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
Buddy Rich
You
Before
Think
Other
Symphony
Everything
Hundred
Hundred Years
Thousand
Exactly
Exactly What
Written
Drummers
Limited
Years
Them
Really
Creating
Why
Played
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.
Buddy Rich
Black
Think
Thirties
Everybody
Late
Count
Had
Drummers
Well
Course
Real
Bands
Just
Influence
Forties
Players
Early
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.
Buddy Rich
Time
Me
Win
Big
Every
Think
Way
One Time
Gene
Inspiration
Like
Drum
Drummer
Drummers
Contest
Same
Wanted
Naturally
Play
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.
Chad Smith
Me
People
Fans
Too Much
Will
Somewhere
Picture
Band
Too
Someone
Something
Take
Come
Drummers
Up
Get
Much
Who
'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
Damien Chazelle
Song
Hated
Most
Drummers
Because
Always
Screw
Designed
I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.
Dave Brubeck
Great
You
First
Everything
Brother
Kitchen
Kitchen Sink
He
Know
Drummer
Drummers
House
Always
Got
How
Sink
Very
Orchestra
Aware
Henry
Oldest
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.
Dave Lombardo
Music
Sit
Add
Those
Guys
Outwit
Like
Drummer
Drummers
Another
Trying
Room
Who
Actually
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
Gene Krupa
God
Natural
Speak
Gave
About
Guys
Talent
Drummers
Talking
Playing
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
Greg Iles
Christmas
Best
Guitar
Girl
Pay
Pay Attention
Way
Guitar Players
Best Friend
More
He
Attention
Like
Drummers
Drums
Instrument
Got
Friend
Than
Moved
Moved On
Them
Realized
Asked
Much
Expressive
Things
Players
Two
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.
Jamie Muir
Jazz
Williams
Clarke
Recordings
Drummers
Practiced
Very
Beginner
American
Closely
Listen
Again
Used
Hard
Kenny
Tony
With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
Janet Weiss
Good
Me
Song
Better
Try
Power
Band
Situation
Every
Melodic
Focusing
Record
Retain
Songwriter
Drummers
Make
Sort
Goal
Than
Just
Much
Each
Technique
Million
Adapt
At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.
Keith Moon
Heart
World
Drummers
Accept
Greatest
Rock
Am
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Cannot
Star
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
Kevin Jonas
Good
Guys
Songwriters
Drummers
Blink
Greatest
Really
Ever
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.
Kurt Elling
Energy
Everything
City
Rush
Rate
Through
Highly
New
Drummers
Accelerate
Because
York
So Much Energy
New York
Much
Reason
Many
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.
Matt Cameron
Me
Band
Sit
Kind
Some
Take
Had
Stuff
Drummers
Couple
Soundgarden
Different
Break
Fun
Watch
Last
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.
Matt Cameron
Time
Food
Live
Every
Some
Staying
Seem
High-Profile
Shape
Touring
Road
Drummers
Talked
Very
Hard
Who
Hard Time
Including
Acts
Fast
Fast Food
Every Night
Night
It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.
Moby
Music
You
People
Wait
Own
Nothing
Approach
Easier
Musician
Ability
Diversified
Studio
Drummer
Drummers
Drums
Make
Around
Lot
Than
Just
Against
Ask
Much
Your
Electronic
Play
Play Drums
Differently
Career
Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Noel Redding
Met
Before
Drummers
Mitchell
Different
Rehearsed
Hendrix
Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'
Orianthi
Great
You
Change
Guitar
School
Thought
Bass
Bass Players
Else
Back
Harp
Guitar Player
Guitar Players
Something
Guy
Something Else
Had
Like
Drummers
Schools
Female
Said
Doing
Male
Times
Being
Should
Cool
Many
Thing
Player
Players
Playing
Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.
Peter Tork
Happy
Sunday
First
Before
Band
Benefit
Several
Members
Charities
Through
Knew
Drummers
Concerts
Line
Were
Up
Very
Michael
Did
Just
Really
Original
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