I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

— John Bonham

I feel like, with drum programming, the way I used to do it, I'd think of how somebody would play these drum patterns and…

— Tycho

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

— John Otto

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

— Clive James

I love a spontaneous solo dance party.

— Camille Rowe

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.

— Suzi Quatro

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo…

— John Bonham

One of the things I don't like about drum solos is a lot of times, if it's a written drum solo its kind of…

— John Dolmayan

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,

— Paul Desmond

“i want to go to the gym and pretend the weight machines are drums and play the longest drum solo on them”

— Megan Boyle

You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can tell when…

— Derek Trucks

My dog thinks I am patting his belly...little does he know I am playing the most epic drum solo of all time.

— Anonymous

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others…

— Paul Bley

The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that…

— Babatunde Olatunji

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

— Martin Luther King, Jr