Forgotten Quote by Bill Ward

As far as drummers are concerned, when I was a child growing up I was really attracted to artists like Gene Kupra and Louis…

— Bill Ward

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

— Yusaku Maezawa

Drummers are tough.

— James Righton

I listened to Buddy Rich a lot, and also to guys like Clive Bunker, the original drummer from Jethro Tull. All these guys had…

— Marky Ramone

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing…

— Steven Adler

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

— Mel Torme

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real…

— Buddy Rich

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

— Ashton Irwin

Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that…

— Bill Bruford

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

— Chet Baker

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

— Steven Wilson