Always Quote by Steven Wilson

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 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 think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

— Bill Ward

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

— Kurt Elling

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.…

— Van Morrison

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

— Neil Peart

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

— Yusaku Maezawa

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

— Pat Smear

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is…

— David Amram

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know…

— Oscar Peterson