Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Drums were my first instrument.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

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.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

I miss the physicality of drumming. There's immediateness about it that I'm always striving for in my acting. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession. I certainly wish I could spend more time pursuing music. It feels like a part of me I'm neglecting.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

Anybody can be a drummer.

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

I have been a tabla player since the age of four.

I love playing drums and helping out.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.