I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world…

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

— Phil Collins

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

— Peter Erskine

“Life is a paradiddle... R-L-RR-L-R-LL... R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL... R-L-R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-L-R-LL... (repeat) ...put 1 stick in front of the other & find the zone!”

— Ross R. Mason

With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers.…

— Jim Root

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f...…

— Noel Gallagher

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a…

— Moby

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how…

— Buddy Rich

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

— Tommy Lee

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer.…

— Fred Armisen

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

— Tommy Lee

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other…

— Miles Davis

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things:…

— Greg Iles

I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of…

— Matthew McConaughey

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or…

— Neil Gaiman

Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp…

— Scott Storch