Drums Quotes

I love drums and still play frequently.

— Adrian Belew

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

— Norman Wisdom

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

— Levon Helm

Playing the drums hurts my back.

— Don Henley

My instrument is drums. That's my core.

— G Flip

I just play drums, mate.

— Phil Rudd

Playing my drums is therapy.

— Travis Barker

“without noise of drums or”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

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 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 consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

— Althea Gibson

Like, back in Albania, all my cousins sing, they play the drums, they play guitar, it's like... a thing!

— Ava Max

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of…

— PSY

All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200…

— Mannie Fresh

I wanted to make the album that my kid self dreamed of, a hybrid of pop/rock but with drums out the front.

— G Flip

I'm not a fan of computerised drums, likewise an organ can lose its appeal within minutes, but there are exceptions.

— Liza Tarbuck

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to…

— Dennis Wilson

When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the…

— Devin Townsend

I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for…

— Taylor Hawkins

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

— Kamasi Washington

A great drum record has to sound good; in fact, it should sound special. It should capture the richness and the actual…

— Joey Jordison

I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of…

— Devon Bostick

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten,…

— Rick Nielsen

Kanye is producing in the true sense of the word. 'Real Friends' was an idea started by me and Boi-1da. We passed…

— Frank Dukes

I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me…

— Don Henley

I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just…

— Shuggie Otis

If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I…

— Miles Davis

If you're really careful to keep the monitors not too loud, if you're lucky, you get a little bit of nice bleed…

— Mike Campbell

I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than…

— Al Murray

It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of…

— Carey Mercer

I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's…

— John Bonham

I'm from New York. I grew up there. I grew up in Westchester County, the suburbs. For me, that was always the…

— Guillermo E. Brown

“They had three cadences, these spectral drummers, which they called First Kings, Second Kings, and Revelations. Going into a fight, they went…

— Howard Bahr