Drummer Quotes · Page 3

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

— Hal Sparks

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

— Matt Cameron

Joe Morello, my dad was really into him and Little Richard's drummer.

— Jason Bonham

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

— Damien Chazelle

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

— Bob Seger

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

— Pooja Ruprell

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

— Lee Grant

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

— Lou Gramm

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

— Buddy Rich

The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

— Z'EV

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to…

— Buddy Rich

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

— John Densmore

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't…

— Ryan Hemsworth

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

— Eric Hernandez

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic,…

— Klaus Schulze

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

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

— Zedd

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

[Eddie Locke] had a huge impact in my life. He was a great jazz drummer. He was mentored by Papa Joe Jones…

— Jon Gordon

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a…

— Nat Wolff

I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the…

— Russ

Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any…

— Butch Trucks

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead…

— Chris Cornell

There's always only been three of us [drummer Joey Shuffield, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Tony Scalzo and myself], but when we first…

— Miles Zuniga

Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst…

— Michael Rother

Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab,…

— Ian Shoales

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

The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's…

— RuPaul

It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit…

— Daniel Webster

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.…

— Charles McPherson

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

— Thelonious Monk

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

— Gary Cole

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

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

— Dave Clark

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

— Tony Palermo

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

— Larry Mullen, Jr

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

— Ryuichi Sakamoto