Drummer Quotes

• 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.

  

  Joshua Ostrander
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Drummer

• A drummer is usually like the backbone.

  

  Brody Dalle
  • Drummer
  • Backbone

• 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

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Thinking
  • Butterfly
  • Caterpillars

• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Sacrifice
  • Ears
  • Machines

• Some are more nuts than others. I've had my moments. But I don't think I'm really a typical drummer. I've met some that I couldn't keep up with.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Moments
  • Drummer
  • Nuts

• I've become really good friends with Ringo and he also has expressed admiration for the first album and the drumming on the first album. I remember back in the day, Bruce our drummer met him and he asked for Knack buttons for his kids. So, it was pretty cool.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Friends
  • Admiration
  • Drummer

• Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Average

• We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Quiet
  • Four
  • George

• Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Jazz
  • Drummer
  • Tennis Player

• I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Drummer

• 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.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • Yourself
  • Realized
  • Releasing

• Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Stupid
  • Play Music

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

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Technology
  • Singer
  • Drummer

• I'm a frustrated drummer. That's why our songs tended to be drum-heavy. But our harmonies were complex, too. You'll never hear 'Rag Doll' in a Holiday Inn lounge because it's just too hard to sing.

  

  Bob Gaudio
  • Songs
  • Sing
  • Harmonies

• Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Project
  • Drummer

• I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • Plays
  • Beat
  • Drummer

• Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • High

• There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Communication
  • Conversation
  • Musician

• Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • School
  • Determined
  • Left

• Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Drummer
  • I Want

• "My fans are the best ever! thank you for voting for me on being a great drummer. it means the world to me that you guys cared enough to vote"

  

  Jose Pasillas Incubus
  • Fans
  • Vote
  • Drummer

• I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

  

  Celestine Sibley
  • Kind
  • Reciprocity
  • Plumber

• When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Nirvana

• 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.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Band
  • Singer
  • Keyboardist

1

2

3

4

5

previous

next