Authority Quote by Steve Winwood

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

— Srikumar Rao

Make the drummer sound good.

— Steve Lacy

As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could still say,…

— Miles Teller

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is…

— Elvin Jones

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

— Buddy Rich

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

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

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

— Pat Smear

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

— Anonymous

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to…

— Philip Selway

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

— Tre Cool

We had an incident back in 2001 where our drummer threw out a drumstick into the crowd and it hit someone in the eye…

— Wayne Static