Drums Quotes · Page 4

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the…

— Kamasi Washington

In 'Dancing Drums' I interweave all my mediums into what I like to call, simply as 'trance.'

— Shobana

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the…

— Paul Weller

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

— Cameron Monaghan

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore…

— Eric San

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain…

— Fred Armisen

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.

— Joey Jordison

I got so lonely in 2012 and I wasn't playing drums. I thought I would just form my own band and play…

— Bill Ward

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so…

— Damien Chazelle

To me, I always felt like drums have to be the support and the driving factor in a song, and there's places…

— Vinnie Paul

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't…

— Butch Trucks

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

— Brian Posehn

The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me.

— Leon Russell

I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend…

— Taylor Hawkins

The 'Lions' inspiration was unity. I started with a riff on the guitar, and I was playing the riff in the studio.…

— Skip Marley

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and…

— David Byrne

One very important side of my playing lies in rhythm; I have a very percussive style. It's one I've developed with Dream…

— John Petrucci

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

— Brendon Urie

While I was sitting back on drums for years, I was watching how the lead singer interacts with the crowd, how the…

— G Flip

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for…

— Mac DeMarco

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost…

— Rick Allen

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum…

— Jeff Hanneman

My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we…

— Sam Shepard

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

— Ricky Reed

I really enjoyed playing drums on 'Born Again.' It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there…

— Bill Ward