Drums Quotes

• I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums.' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Played
  • Drums

• With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Battles

• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Play
  • I Love
  • Instruments

• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music Is
  • Battling
  • Exorcism

• The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Party
  • Sympathy
  • Admiration

• I played drums growing up. I rapped and everything.

  

  Trevor Daniel
  • Growing Up
  • Drums

• Apparently this r had to be worked for: Varya told me that as a child she couldn’t pronounce it properly, and that her father would make her repeat a series of exercises about gorgeous grapes growing on Mount Ararat and three hundred thirty-three drummers drumming on three hundred thirty-three drums.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Father
  • Child
  • Exercises

• I never learned technique; I just let my band naturally guide me in the way I play drums. I think that’s the best way to learn. Bless you if you go to school and learn technique or read music.

  

  Noah Bernardo P.O.D.
  • Learned
  • Technique
  • Drums

• I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Songs
  • Drums
  • Eagles

• It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Leader
  • Miracle
  • Album

• If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Play
  • Destroyed
  • Encouragement

• Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin.

  

  Suzi Quatro
  • Guitar
  • Drums
  • Bass

• I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Sing
  • Onstage
  • Public Speaker

• When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Fake
  • Radio

• I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Guitar
  • Drums
  • Feel Better

• You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Jazz
  • Rock And Roll
  • Metallica

• What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Drums

• The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

  

  Danny Carey
  • Singer
  • Drums
  • Supporting

• She Beyonce is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Performer
  • Drums
  • Beyonce

• My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

  

  Milton Berle
  • Music
  • Family
  • Wife

• First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Drummer

• All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Work
  • Drums
  • Suitcase

• I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Singer
  • Plays
  • Drums

• For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.

  

  William Fitzgerald Harper
  • Music
  • Together
  • Drums

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