Drummer Quotes

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.

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

Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.

I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched 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.

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

Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

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

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

I don't like driving through the rain. Your tour is only going to go as good as your bus driver, kinda like your band is only going to be as good as your drummer.

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 the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

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.

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.

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.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

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.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

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'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

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.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

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 a while, though it's a little constricting.

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

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.

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

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

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.

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

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.