Cheesy Quote by Carey Mercer

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

— Levon Helm

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

— Jeff Buckley

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

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

— Patty Schemel

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

You know, as I'm progressing with my sound, I just realize when you got a simple sound with crazy percussion in the beats, it…

— Tay Keith

I don't like drums dictating the song; like when you hear a fill and then you know the chorus is coming up.

— Adam Granduciel

The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set,…

— Washed Out

As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant",…

— Glenn Kotche

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

— Alexis Taylor

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

— Charlie Parker

Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills…

— John Otto