Drummer Quotes · Page 4

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

— J. Robbins

I was always quite shy so I became a drummer.

— David Essex

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

— Max Roach

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

— Lin Brehmer

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

As a young kid I never saw myself as a drummer.

— Jason Bonham

I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

— John Bonham

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

— Patricia Barber

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I…

— Dave Grohl

As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session,…

— Ray Stevens

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

— Glenn Kotche

You have to be very strong to play my music. The drummer has to be in great shape. Same with the guitarist.…

— Chubby Checker

“I was marching to the beat of my own drummer, and I was clearly out of step with reality.”

— Robin Schwarz

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

— James Brown

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty…

— Q-Tip

As a drummer, I always approach things as, 'I want to play just enough to keep other drummers interested, but not enough…

— Vinnie Paul

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage…

— Ken Stott

I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters.…

— B.o.B

One of the things I don't like about drum solos is a lot of times, if it's a written drum solo its…

— John Dolmayan

I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was…

— Guillermo E. Brown

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the…

— David Amram

We've got the pretty-boy lead singer and the fat, dumpy drummer, and I'm the zany guitarist. Sure, we've played up the image…

— Rick Nielsen

“That’s a drummer’s love story. If you want a prettier one, you’ll be waiting forever. If you could separate your body into…

— Anonymous

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the…

— Stephenie Meyer

To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all…

— Dave Grohl

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing…

— Robert Fripp

That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first…

— Pete Yorn

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

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'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take…

— Van Morrison

I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with…

— Ted Nugent

I grew up a drummer, so I've always been around music.

— Darrelle Revis

He's (Ringo Starr) not even the best drummer in the Beatles…

— Paul McCartney

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

— Taylor Hawkins

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

— Taylor Hawkins

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

— Greg Saunier

I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.

— Dave Clark

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.

— Matt Cameron