Top 723 Drums Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

I just want to make music on the drums.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

I would love to play the drums with 'The Who.'

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

Drums were my first instrument.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.

Most great records really start with the drums.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

I just play drums, mate.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

Playing my drums is therapy.

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

I love drums and still play frequently.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

I've been playing drums since I was 7.

The way I play the drums, it's becoming tougher as I get older.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

I love playing drums and helping out.

I learned how to play the drums... it got me into LTD.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

I wanted to play the drums, but I had no rhythm.

People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

My desk is my drums.

I started on the drums when I was eight.

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I started playing drums in the 4th grade.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

My first job was with The O'Jays playing drums.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.