Drums Quotes · Page 4

“Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

— Mike Gordon

“All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.”

— John Hughes

I started playing drums in the 4th grade.

— E-40

Guitar, drums, load up, I'm getting high.

— Def Leppard

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

— Varg Vikernes

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

— Don Henley

I like hip-hop, I like a lot of dance music. If it's got drums in it.

— Sara Cox

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

— Keith Moon

You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some…

— Anonymous

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10,…

— Lukas Haas

It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to…

— Julia Holter

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

— Damien Chazelle

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin…

— Rudyard Kipling

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start…

— Brendon Urie

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the…

— Dave Clark

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums…

— Ernie Isley

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because…

— Chord Overstreet

You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different.…

— Robert Trujillo

As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the…

— Glenn Kotche

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet,…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old '50s and '60s pop and soul and…

— G-Eazy

I play a little bit of everything. I beat on the walls. I whistle. I scream. I go outside and scream because…

— Walker Hayes

My sister's CD collection was my source of music for a long time. When she showed me 'Kid A,' I was really…

— Alex G

I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

— Kenny Beats

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

— Joseph Parker

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

— Lou Reed

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

— Earl Scruggs

I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.

— Tommy Bolin

The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.

— Danny Carey

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

— Vinny Appice

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

— Warren Zevon

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

— Ricky Reed

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

— Eddie Van Halen

I hear your heartbeat to the beat of the drums :)

— Justine Huerto

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

— Taylor Hawkins

My life has always been centered around playing drums.

— G Flip

My first job was with The O'Jays playing drums.

— Jeffrey Osborne

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

— Jan Hammer