Drummer Quotes · Page 14

I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs-…

— Phil Ehart

We were the first group where the drummer was the front man.

— Dave Clark

When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale…

— Wednesday 13

I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container…

— John Bonham

My son is my drummer.

— John Corabi

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

— Slim Moon

Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique…

— Tony MacAlpine

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

— Taylor Hawkins

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

— Tre Cool

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal…

— Damien Chazelle

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

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

— Dave Grohl

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

— Bill Bruford

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It…

— Peter Tork

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

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

I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a…

— Katie Stelmanis

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

— Mel Torme

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar,…

— Steve Burns

It's nice when somebody says that you're their 'favorite' drummer.

— Mike Portnoy

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

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell…

— Juicy J

As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could…

— Miles Teller

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

— Ringo Starr

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

— Max Roach