Best 84 quotes in «drummer quotes» category

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.

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

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

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

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs.

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer.

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. Our music is not about me; I contribute one part, one experience, and drummer Terreon Gully brings something completely different.

PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Banu menjadikan kegilaannya menabuh drum sebagai pelarian dari banyak masalahnya

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.