Drums Quotes · Page 7

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

— Tommy Lee

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

— Joey Jordison

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.

— Vinnie Colaiuta

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

— Jeff Lynne

Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?

— Kelley Armstrong

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played…

— Thomas Rhett

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost…

— Rick Allen

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

— Hank Williams III

I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the…

— Zedd

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the…

— Paul Weller

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the…

— Kamasi Washington

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the…

— Devin Townsend

I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for…

— Taylor Hawkins

Kanye is producing in the true sense of the word. 'Real Friends' was an idea started by me and Boi-1da. We passed…

— Frank Dukes

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten,…

— Rick Nielsen

I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of…

— Devon Bostick

When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

— Bonobo

I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a…

— Rex Orange County

“Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way…

— Audie Murphy

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.

— Randy Rainbow

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

— Rickey Medlocke

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

— Tommy Lee

My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

— Cara Delevingne

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human…

— Ringo Starr

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was…

— Thurston Moore

What better to get all the anger and stuff out for what I do in Slipknot than to play the drums? You're…

— Joey Jordison

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

— Ikue Mori

Shattered windows and the sound of drums. People couldn't believe what I'd become.

— Coldplay

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums;…

— Jo Jones

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty…

— Justin Bieber

“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.”

— Dave Matthes

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to…

— Don Henley

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's…

— Patty Schemel

In 'Dancing Drums,' I've touched on music that largely brings the ethos of religions other than my own together.

— Shobana

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.

— Patty Schemel

There's a lot of femininity in the pop world if you're a girl. I aligned more with Travis Barker, like taking my…

— G Flip

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I…

— Matthew Morrison

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

— Caroline Corr