Drummer Quotes

• I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Band
  • Drummer

• I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Drummer

• I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the Luddites. Im happiest when Im behind the kit.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Back-to-basics

• I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Inspiration
  • Drum
  • Gene Krupa

• My son is my drummer.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Drummer
  • My Son

• Dom wants to be a stadium rock drummer and have a sweat towel tech...

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Rock
  • Drummer
  • Towel

• I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Performance
  • Good Songs
  • Great Band

• I know Goldilocks quite well. That's what I call Phil Collins. He's been more successful than me and a better drummer than me but I still got a head full of hair. So there.

  

  Graeme Edge The Moody Blues
  • Successful
  • Phil Collins
  • Goldilocks

• 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.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Music
  • Band
  • Perform

• As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons

  

  Steven Jay Page Barenaked Ladies
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Rich

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

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Female

• I don't take myself that seriously when it comes down to that stuff. My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet. He's a constant reminder every time stuff gets a little too heavy, maybe I have a bad show or I'll hit a horrible note on some recorded TV thing or something, and he's like, "Man don't take yourself so seriously - this is a joke, we're playing music." And that's a great thing to keep me grounded at all times. We're not saving lives, but the power does help us.

  

  Aaron Richard Bruno Awolnation
  • World
  • Men
  • Helping

• I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.

  

  Keith Moon The Who
  • World
  • Style
  • Keiht Moon

• If you know me at all, you know how big this is for me. brendancanty has been the most influential drummer on me from my first band to everything I’ve ever played on.

  

  Adam David "Atom" Willard
  • Band
  • Drummer
  • Influential

• Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Misunderstood
  • Governed

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

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • World
  • Drummer
  • My Favorite

• It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Songs
  • Drummer
  • Chicks

• I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • World
  • Moon
  • Type

• When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Done
  • Band
  • Player

• I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • House
  • Player
  • Listening

• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Capable
  • Contribution
  • Cosmic

• 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.

  

  Matthew "Matt" Montgomery Amen
  • Driving
  • Rain
  • Bus

• My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Car
  • Names
  • Potty

• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Coffee

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