Different Quote by Ikue Mori

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

— J Mascis

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

— John Bonham

The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.

— Joey Sturgis

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

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

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

— Levon Helm

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

— Alexis Taylor

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

— Sivamani

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

— Joe Cocker

There are numerous different kinds of drum sounds - some are more ambient and roomy and this, that, and the other, the John Bonham…

— Vinnie Paul

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

— John Otto

But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

— John Otto