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- Nov 07, 2020
Drummer Quotes
Rhythm, bandmates, and life behind the kit.
This collection notes how modern recording increasingly leans on click tracks instead of a live player behind the kit, alongside a childhood dream of drumming for a living. Explore Band quotes for more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing, trying to keep everyone playing the groove and other things like making sure the piano's in a nice pocket.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dance to the beat of a different drummer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
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- Nov 07, 2020