Best 84 quotes in «drummer quotes» category

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was a leap beyond the spouting whale, with more figures, a six-bladed propeller, and a much more complex system of rods and pivots that made the instruments dip and rise as if the musicians were marching.

Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality - the broader picture, if you will.

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

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

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 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 want no drummer. I set the tempo.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad 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 pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

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

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

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 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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 did a little singing too.