Drums Quotes

• I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Way
  • Drums
  • Vocals

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

  

  Danny Carey
  • Singer
  • Drums
  • Supporting

• Playing the drums hurts my back.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Playing
  • Drums

• All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Playing
  • Living
  • Drums

• So the vocal and drums are rhythmically complementing each other at all times.

  

  Paul Doucette Matchbox Twenty
  • Drums
  • Vocal
  • Complement

• 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

• I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Playing
  • Drums

• 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

• At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Pretty
  • Indian
  • Fiddle

• PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.

  

  Al Murray
  • Business
  • Drums
  • Re-Wrapping

• My older son asked me yesterday.."Father, can you teach me how to play drums"...What a feeling. :) The disease has spread I guess...

  

  Kai Hahto Nightwish
  • Feeling
  • Play
  • Son

• I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Learning
  • Piano
  • Drums

• Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Drums
  • Manhattan
  • Chorus

• I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Singing
  • Playing
  • Drums

• Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Music
  • I Believe
  • Way Of Life

• I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

  

  Rich Brian
  • Used
  • Through
  • Drums

• I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Way
  • Playing
  • Drums

• O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Soul
  • Heroes
  • Roll

• I’ve always appreciated working. And more importantly, playing drums. I always appreciated it.

  

  Chris Slade
  • Playing
  • Appreciated
  • Drums

• Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.

  

  Isom Innis
  • Growing Up
  • Drums
  • Introduction

• The only way to play drums is hard. You can't play drums and not hit 'em, or go in there and be a pansy.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Play
  • Drums
  • Pansy

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