Beats Quote by Mike Gordon

For me, it's always easier playing with a drummer.

— John Petrucci

It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic…

— John DiMaggio

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is…

— Neil Peart

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

— John Bonham

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your…

— Bill Kreutzmann

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

— Matt Tong

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

— Ken Griffey Jr

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

— Richard Sherman

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

— John Otto

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though.…

— Q-Tip

I think it's very cool for the drummer to be set free from having to worry about holding down the beat every once in…

— James Hetfield

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