It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
I was thrilled to hear Mick Jones wanted me to be involved in celebrating 40 years of Foreigner. I spent three years… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died. — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
My soul is that of a drummer… I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of… — Bob Crane Copy Share Image
I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
If we were to find a drummer that we were comfortable with and who we felt could really become a part of… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I didn't date my wife in high school, but she was definitely by far the coolest woman there. She was definitely the… — Eric Mabius Copy Share Image
To me, I always felt like drums have to be the support and the driving factor in a song, and there's places… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin… — Christopher Mintz-Plasse Copy Share Image
Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique… — Tony MacAlpine Copy Share Image
When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale… — Wednesday 13 Copy Share Image
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,… — Gil Evans Copy Share Image
Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
“But that drummer – the one who could make his drum sound like water dropping into a bucket or like the footfalls… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If… — Moby Copy Share Image
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour,… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
My first rock band was called Mike and the Majestics. I was about twelve, and my older sister Kathy was the manager.… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
![“My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and…” quote by Sarah Harmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08a/sarah-harmer-36335_agents_my-drummer-right-now-who-was-also-the-fi_2618738.jpg)
![“The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78b/miles-davis-1842_different_the-reason-drummers-call-things-unison-a_1636596.jpg)
