Top 463 Drummer Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.
Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.
I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes and you got to breathe.
You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.
One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.
What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'
I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.
I don't think I've ever met a drummer who didn't tell me that my dad was an influence. He's a tough act to follow.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
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 arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.
I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
I know I live in the shadow of the greatest drummer in the world, so it's nice to have a bit of sunshine now and again.
Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.
A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove and plays solidly in time.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.
John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.
If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.
My drummer was my best friend. It weighs on me that we put all that time in - I played with him for 15 years, beginning with 'Laguardia' - and we had moderate success.
I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.
[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.
They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
You might be the "little drummer boy," worried that what you have to say isn't worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you and not a copy of others you feel are successful.
I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.
I went to church as a kid, but mainly for the showbiz aspect. I remember doing a solo of 'The Little Drummer Boy' and everyone singing the rup-a-pum-pums.
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar
My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.
The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
I am not a technical drummer at all. I'm more from the Keith Moon/Lars Ulrich school of, 'Hey, look at me!' I just get up there and bash.
You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.
