Drums Quotes · Page 8

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's…

— Noel Gallagher

The drums are very trashy: it's all electric, it's very in your face, and it's not perfect. It's raw, and I think…

— Aubrie Sellers

Look, I love to sit in with small groups and play the drums. What's wrong with that?

— Bob Crane

Drums with a pump like some Reeboks. See me from the treetops. They worry but they need not. Heating like a teapot.

— Mac Miller

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

— Shura

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything:…

— J Mascis

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums…

— Miles Davis

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

— Elvin Jones

With something like 'Second Sun' it was something I'd never really done before. It has no drums and I think that was…

— Bonobo

I played the drums. I basically started off in drum line. So it was just straight percussion. Then I got into the…

— Jrue Holiday

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as…

— Fred Armisen

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and…

— Jane Seymour

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If…

— Moby

I don't have session players come in and guitars, I'm doing the drums, I'm doing the scratching, I'm doing every sound you…

— DJ Premier

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood -…

— Donnie Fritts

I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot…

— Sean Berdy

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that…

— Tom Curren

I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums.

— Synyster Gates

If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.

— Finneas

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the…

— John McLaughlin

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to…

— Gina Schock

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but…

— Alexa Chung

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

— Ronald Perelman

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Josh Homme

From a musical standpoint, I was inspired by '90s hip hop, with a lot of drums and the tempos. I'm always inspired…

— Vic Mensa

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

— Mickey Hart

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

— Bill Bruford

The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.

— Joey Sturgis

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record…

— Grandmaster Flash

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that…

— Bill Kreutzmann

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a…

— Greg Saunier

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

— Leon Russell

“Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin' braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin' off tae war?”

— Brian Jacques

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

Radio or no radio, I just like the way records sound when the drums and vocals are loud.

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

— David Byrne

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

— Mike Patton