Drums Quotes · Page 8

My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.

— Randy Rainbow

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

“Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way…

— Audie Murphy

I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a…

— Rex Orange County

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

— Tommy Lee

My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

— Cara Delevingne

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human…

— Ringo Starr

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

— Rickey Medlocke

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to…

— Buddy Rich

Every song I hear is me and every drummer plays for you.. somewhere there is connection. It's not the drums or the…

— Unkown

You can feel the drums, and you can feel the bass. So, being able to feel the music through the floor, it…

— Mandy Harvey

I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year,…

— Tommy Bolin

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together.…

— Miles Davis

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the…

— Ornette Coleman

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to…

— Travis Barker

My favorite thing is drums. I have a very, very big memory - and I don't have many big memories - of…

— Fiona Apple

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

— Joey Jordison

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

— Tommy Lee

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

— Robert Glasper

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

— Tommy Lee

When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

— Bonobo

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

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

— Hank Williams III

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.

— Vinnie Colaiuta

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

— Jeff Lynne

Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?

— Kelley Armstrong

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played…

— Thomas Rhett

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

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.

— Patty Schemel

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

— Vinnie Paul

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

— Chris Rea

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

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

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

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

— Caroline Corr

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

— Coldplay

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

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

— Ikue Mori

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

— Thurston Moore

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

— Shobana