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“I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.”
“Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.”
“When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.”
“What’s really good is African drum music.”
“There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.”
“I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”
“There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they’re narcissists.”
“Blue Monday’s distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.”
“I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google’s ‘two-step’ authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.”
“’The Tin Drum’ is one of my favourite books of all time – I’ve probably got 12 or 15 copies with different covers, different translations – but it’s also just about my favourite film.”
“Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.”
“My drum sticks are in the ‘Hall of Fame.’ I know that.”
“By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.”
“The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn’t repeat itself. The players didn’t stick to a format or formula.”
“Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.”
“But I’ve gravitated more towards the drum set.”
“I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.”
“Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.”
“I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.”
“I’d be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.”
“When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that’s what made the drum set possible.”
“I’ve always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.”
“As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I’m not a drummer by any means.”
“I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-’60s – a conga drum and another guitarist. And that’s been mostly what I’ve worked with most of the time.”
“But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.”
“If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.”
“When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.”
“There’s a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It’s a new approach to it.”
“In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o’clock.”
“I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.”
