Drummer Quote by Lee Ritenour

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store…

— Jack Irons

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

— Suzy Bogguss

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

— Adrian Belew

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about…

— Buddy Rich

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

— Evelyn Glennie

My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our…

— Sam Shepard

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing…

— Questlove

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

— Pharoah Sanders

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass…

— Lukas Haas

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

— Tommy Bolin

Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.

— Jain

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

— Ricky Reed