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There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

— Miroslav Vitous

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

— Yo-Yo Ma

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

— Buddy Rich

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

— Brody Armstrong

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

— Moby

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

— Jason Bateman

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

— Ewan McGregor

✗Opposing Perspectives

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

— Buddy Rich

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

— Steven Adler

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

— Hunter Hayes