Best 84 quotes in «drummer quotes» category

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

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

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.