Drummer Quotes · Page 3

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

— Phil Collins

Anybody can be a drummer.

— Angie Dickinson

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

— Joey Kramer

I think I was the best drummer!

— Phil Collins

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

— RuPaul

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

— Gary Cole

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

— Bill Bruford

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

— Thelonious Monk

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

— Lee Grant

“Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.”

— Pooja Ruprell

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

— Bill Bruford

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

— Tony Palermo

I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at…

— St. Vincent

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but…

— Steve Jobs

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I…

— Jack White

A drummer's playing with all their limbs, you're playing polyrhythms with each part of your body. Every part of the drumkit is…

— G Flip

I started playing drums in multiple bands, then became a wedding drummer while studying drums in college, and after became a touring…

— G Flip

I don't care about technique. I have kind of been pigeonholed as a technical drummer since I was in Dream Theater for…

— Mike Portnoy

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

I joined Alcatrazz a month after I recorded 'Steeler.' The big difference between Steeler and Alcatrazz is that in Alcatrazz, I wrote…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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…

— Buddy Rich

Every song I hear is me and every drummer plays for you.. somewhere there is connection. It's not the drums or the…

— Unkown

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone…

— Stefon Harris

I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than…

— Al Murray

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brothers a drummer and Ive always been jealous that hes such a…

— Nat Wolff

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come…

— Jens Lekman

I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity…

— Celestine Sibley

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

— Katie Stelmanis

Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first…

— Mike Keneally

We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been…

— George Harrison

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things. ...But I didn't play drums to make money. I…

— Ringo Starr

I don't take myself that seriously when it comes down to that stuff. My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world,…

— Aaron Bruno

I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

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

— Dave Clark

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

— Malin Akerman

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

— Miles Davis