Top 120 Drummers Quotes & Sayings

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

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

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of the reason.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

I had a lot of teachers. When I think about my upbringing I feel like the most fortunate person. It was a marvellous era for drummers.

Drummers are tough.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Both my brothers are drummers.

Bass players and drummers are like brothers, working in the basement, cooking up the groove. If they don't lock together with the feel, the ensemble will suck.

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

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

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

I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.

I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums.

All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.

I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

There aren't enough girl drummers.

I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.

As far as drummers are concerned, when I was a child growing up I was really attracted to artists like Gene Kupra and Louis Bellson and Buddy Rich; a lot of the drummers that played in the popular big bands of the '40s. I would listen to their records.

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.