Welcome to the Drum Wall! A wall dedicated to sharing quotes from famous musicians, artists and leaders many of whom are drummers. If you have a quote that inspires you, please feel free to share.
"Playing fast around the drums is one thing. But to play music, to play with people for others to listen to, that’s something else. That’s a whole other world." -Tony Williams
The Question: "How do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning?" By showing up. Day in, day out. By not judging how it is going. If it's going at all, that's enough. You can't afford to think about how the work will be received when you are finished. That's not your job. Remember, we're learning to surrender the delivery of details of our dreams. Our job, then, is just to do it. It can't be published, produced, performed, or purchased if it doesn't exist.
"Always keep your playing honest and fresh, play from your heart, and give one hundred and ten percent! If you don't commit yourself to the music the audience will never believe you."