#drums

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conundrums #desire #groundhog-day #life #money

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#blend #drums #important #really #somehow

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#because #drums #else #feel #give

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way. ↗

— Randy Castillo

#does #drums #format #i #mean

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#back #behind #definitely #drummer #drums

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#almost #anyone #could #creativity #done

I like drums, really, if they're under control. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#drums #i #like #really #under

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#drums #hear #i #kinda #life

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15. ↗

— Layne Staley

#drums #i #out #playing #singing

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars