Drummer Quotes

As a young kid I never saw myself as a drummer.

— Jason Bonham

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

— Lou Gramm

There aren't enough girl drummers.

— Tobi Vail

I was always quite shy so I became a drummer.

— David Essex

“Baby...drummers bang all night long!”

— Joanne Schwehm

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

— Colin Greenwood

I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.

— Tre Cool

Make the drummer sound good.

— Steve Lacy

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

— Ginger Baker

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

— Ringo Starr

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

— Lin Brehmer

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

— Max Roach

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

— Taylor Hawkins

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

— Damien Chazelle

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there,…

— Steve Valentine

We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to…

— Ted Dwane

I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes…

— John Densmore

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has…

— Max Roach

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.

— Neil Young

Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say…

— Noel Gallagher

It's a pop album from a drummer's perspective but more importantly, 'Drummer' is the album I always wanted to hear growing up.

— G Flip

I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I…

— Miguel Ferrer

“Sky. Hope mixed with horror as I searched for Zed, quessing he would not have let his soulfinder walk into this situation…

— Joss Stirling

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not…

— Max Weinberg

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played…

— Brendon Urie

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house…

— Dave Brubeck

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab,…

— Ian Shoales

Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst…

— Michael Rother

Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To…

— Brian Epstein

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead…

— Chris Cornell

I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be…

— Matt Dillon

I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago.…

— Junior Wells

You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true…

— Mike Dooley

We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to…

— Theresa Wayman