Drummer Quote by Max Roach Download Open image “I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.” — Max Roach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drummer Figures Resentment Roles Subservient
I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer. — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else. — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer. — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school. — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drumming. It frees you up to not… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room… — Dave Lombardo Copy Share Image
“In your lifetime, if you can come up with one original idea, you have accomplished a great deal.” — Max Roach Copy Share Image
My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty. — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction. — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers. — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity… — Zedd Copy Share Image
The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers. — Peter Erskine Copy Share Image
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's… — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before.… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
