Beat Quote by Bob Crane

I'm a drummer that's what really I am, and it's gone downhill from there!

— David Essex

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

— Phil Collins

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit…

— Tommy Lee

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.

— Lil Jon

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room…

— Dave Lombardo

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

— Keith Moon

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

— Damien Chazelle

I play the drums really, really badly.

— Ted Dwane

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

— Richard Sherman

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

— James Brown

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders