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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.

— Damien Chazelle

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I played with the best conductors of the world.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

— Matt Cameron

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

— Kurt Masur

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

— Walter Payton

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

— Damien Chazelle

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

— Steven Tyler

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

— Tre Cool

✗Opposing Perspectives

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

— Keith Moon