Body Quote by G Flip

My drum parts are a song within the song; that's the way I look at writing my drum parts. They follow patterns, and they're…

— Vinnie Paul

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work…

— Stewart Copeland

Drummers are like sharks. They have to move all the time or they die.

— Pat Smear

Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer,…

— Phil Collins

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

— Miles Davis

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it,…

— Shalom Harlow

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel…

— Mickey Hart

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever piece of…

— Max Weinberg

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

— Jo Jones

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

— Anonymous

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes…

— Steven Adler