A Quote by Mike Portnoy

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'best' drummer.

Mike Portnoy

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Mike Portnoy
American - Musician
Born: April 20, 1967

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

Jasper Carrott

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

Jasper Carrott

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

Charlie Hunter

I think I was the best drummer!

Phil Collins

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

Taylor Hawkins

I'm the best live rock drummer. That's what I think of myself. That's who I am. I can't help it.

Phil Rudd

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Jason Schwartzman

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

Buddy Rich

I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.

Russ

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Keith Moon

My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.

Aaron Bruno

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

Rachael Ray

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

Hunter Hayes

My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and gig as much as possible.