Drums Quotes · Page 5

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

— Jenna Elfman

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

— KT Tunstall

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

— Roger Taylor

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

— Jan Hammer

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

— Jeffrey Osborne

In college, I totally took to rock. I played drums and sang with a band.

— KK

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

— Brendon Urie

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

— Damien Chazelle

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's…

— Patty Schemel

In 'Dancing Drums,' I've touched on music that largely brings the ethos of religions other than my own together.

— Shobana

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums;…

— Jo Jones

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to…

— Don Henley

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty…

— Justin Bieber

“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.”

— Dave Matthes

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 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

The biggest thing that I've learnt, which I feel like I stress all the time to people, is not panicking about playing…

— Jen Ledger

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 love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real…

— Cameron Monaghan

We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is…

— Black Thought

For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together,…

— William Jackson Harper

Most great records really start with the drums.

— Billy Corgan

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

— Adam Clayton

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

— Nolan Sotillo

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

— Lee Grant

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

— Ikue Mori

What better to get all the anger and stuff out for what I do in Slipknot than to play the drums? You're…

— Joey Jordison

Shattered windows and the sound of drums. People couldn't believe what I'd become.

— Coldplay

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was…

— Thurston Moore

I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of…

— Panda Bear

I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and…

— Chris Rea

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

— Vinnie Paul

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

— Caroline Corr

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I…

— Matthew Morrison

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

— Myles Kennedy

There's a lot of femininity in the pop world if you're a girl. I aligned more with Travis Barker, like taking my…

— G Flip