Air Quote by Aphex Twin

In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like…

— The Rocket Summer

I feel like, with drum programming, the way I used to do it, I'd think of how somebody would play these drum patterns and…

— Tycho

It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic…

— John DiMaggio

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as…

— Mitch Lucker

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make…

— Terry Bozzio

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

— Matt Tong

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

— Ikue Mori

With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick…

— James Murphy

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was…

— Ikue Mori

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you…

— Evelyn Glennie

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

— Sivamani

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

— Mike Gordon