Beats Quote by Mickey Hart

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy.…

— Mickey Hart

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

I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I'm looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and…

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.

— Tommy Lee

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

One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it…

— Layne Redmond

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting…

— Michael Azerrad

You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it.

— Ari Graynor

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you…

— Evelyn Glennie

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

— Joey Jordison

When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

— Alice Dellal