Favorite Quote

What are one of your most favorite quotes from drummers?

Mine is this one:

I've been playing for 40 years now and seen just about everything. I've seen the 'flavor of the month' drummers come and go but to sustain a long term and permanent career in drumming is a commitment and a gift. Some of these young guys think they can get by in a "rock band"--let's put a chart in front of them. Let's measure their time with a click. Let's measure their time without a click. Let's see that the reason that they play fast is because nobody ever listened to them speak so they insisted about making their point by playing fast. Let's see them play a groove. Let's see them play a groove at 56 BPM. Let's see them play mezzo piano. Let's see them play with space, feel, confidence, taste, dynamics, swing and most importantly, groove.

By:
John Jr Robinson

Nice idea for a topic. Here's one I pulled from a site:

"Playing the drums is a very physical art form, and I believe it's really important to keep fit. Try and listen to as many styles of music as you can, in order to be a versatile musician. Learn as much as you can about music. Try and study if you can afford the time and the money. Learn about running the business side of things, and try to be a good professional as well - that's just as important. Music will only give you back what you put into it" Steve Washington

here's one " you send your package first since i have been burned, then i will send to you" [img]mad.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]

Yeah Randy that is a very common one when we trade with people. Actually I get some of that last week........... with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and is not good.....

? If you blend Jeff Porcaro?s groove, Ringo?s impact and fame, Weckl?s fluidity, Bonham?s intensity, the credits and demand for Vinnie, Virgil?s coordination along with the Jazz Mastery of Tony Williams and Erskine?s dynamics and feeling.....THE RESULT IS NOT ME?

By Juan Exp?sito, HOD forum (2004)

"What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory."

Aldo Leopold

Buddy Rich - "I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way. There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago. Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste" (Modern Drummer1977)

That was pretty humble for Buddy to say.

This is a hilarious quote ON Buddy...

"That damn fool knows the instrument".
-Jo Jones

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Not nec from drummers, but Fave Quotes, nonetheless:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider
freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get
too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.

We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we really communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep
profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do
everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If you don't send this to at least 8 people....
who cares?

- [supposedly-] George Carlin

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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy.

I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy.

That's awesome. Too funny.

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool and should be avoided.

haha George Carlin is the only real comedian i know from the States, but some of his Shows is pretty damn funny!

Where he talks about Airport Security ( it's before 9/11) etc. i just love it. cracks me up [img]smile.gif[/img]