Drummer Quotes · Page 7

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

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

— Rachael Ray

In my case, it's hard to be like a simple drummer who doesn't play all over the place.

— Fab Moretti

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

— Vinnie Paul

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

— Wayne Coyne

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

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel…

— Mickey Hart

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a…

— Barry McGuire

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches…

— Hugh Hefner

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that…

— Manfred Mann

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

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me…

— Bobby Keys

I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise…

— Randy Castillo

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots…

— Rush Limbaugh

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so…

— Charlie Watts

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If…

— Charlie Hunter

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there…

— Buddy Rich

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a…

— Andrew Dost

My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came…

— Rodney Crowell

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

— Mel Torme

Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.

— Varg Vikernes

I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

— Anthony Langston

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

— Anonymous

I don't play beats. I hate playing beats. I'm an orchestration drummer. I'm a musical drummer.

— Bill Ward

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders

I'm a visionary drummer and I have been for a long, long, long time.

— Bill Ward

For me, it's always easier playing with a drummer.

— John Petrucci

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

— Ringo Starr

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

— Dave Grohl

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with…

— Duke Ellington

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and…

— Jay Watson

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

— Miles Davis

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground,…

— Robert Wyatt

I am not a technical drummer at all. I'm more from the Keith Moon/Lars Ulrich school of, 'Hey, look at me!' I…

— Mike Portnoy

When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion,…

— Butch Trucks