Drums Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Record

• 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

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

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Learning
  • Piano
  • Drums

• I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Songs
  • Guitar
  • Written

• 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

• The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.

  

  Danny Carey
  • Boring
  • Solo
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Playing the drums hurts my back.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Playing
  • Drums

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

  

  Rich Brian
  • Used
  • Through
  • Drums

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

  

  Paul Doucette Matchbox Twenty
  • Drums
  • Vocal
  • Complement

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

  

  Chris Slade
  • Playing
  • Appreciated
  • 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

• 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

• 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

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