Drummer Quotes · Page 6

I'm the solo artist drummer that I wanted as a kid. I want to be what I never saw growing up.

— G Flip

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

— Mike Portnoy

“Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

— Buddy Rich

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

— Chet Baker

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

— Pat Morita

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

— Vinnie Paul

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

— Chet Baker

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being…

— Philip Selway

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or…

— Manuel Pellegrini

Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when…

— Babatunde Olatunji

If you drum open handed, you automatically look like a better/cooler drummer than every other drummer.

— Christopher Mintz Plasse

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody…

— Buddy Rich

I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers…

— Patty Schemel

I was the drummer hiding behind the cymbals. By the time fame came along, I'd worked in the business for a decade,…

— David Essex

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

“Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them…

— Diane Schwemm

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They…

— Willem Dafoe

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

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,…

— Caleb Landry Jones

I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the…

— Zedd

[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment…

— Kate Bush

I'm a drummer that's what really I am, and it's gone downhill from there!

— David Essex

“He was my drummer. My guy. Mine. I bit my lip to hold back a grin.”

— Wendy Higgins

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

— Devin Townsend

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'best' drummer.

— Mike Portnoy

I wanted to be a drummer but my brother Iggor was better at it, so I took up guitar instead.

— Max Cavalera

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

— Thighpaulsandra

I'm probably famous to the drummer kid that lives down the street from me, but that's about it.

— Josh Freese

“even my different drummer heard a different drummer”

— Florence King

I'm the best live rock drummer. That's what I think of myself. That's who I am. I can't help it.

— Phil Rudd

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl.

— Neil Young

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

— Chet Baker

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

— Hank Williams III

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

— Miles Davis

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

— Nina Hagen

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

— Ed Thigpen