128 Drummer Quotes for You to Enjoy

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly. Eddi Reader

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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it. Gordon Lightfoot

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I remember the first 45 record I bought. It was called 'A Dog a Donut'; it was a breakbeat. Actually, I think I bought two at one time, and the other one was 'Dance to the Drummer's Beat.' Those are breakbeats. I paid a dollar for it, for each one. Your average producer or DJ would know who came out with those. Gza

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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Hal Sparks

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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha! Hal Sparks

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A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. Hunter Hayes

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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application. Jack White

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Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know. Janet Weiss

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Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles. Jasper Carrott

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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music. Jens Lekman

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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock. Jimmy Chamberlin

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I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense. Joe Satriani

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If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer. Joey Jordison

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A band is as solid as its drummer is. Joey Kramer

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My son is my drummer. John Corabi

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When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere. Jools Holland

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No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can. Ken Stott

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Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback. Lee Ranaldo

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My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion. Lee Ritenour

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer. Manuel Pellegrini

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My dad still hasn't heard 'I Love My Dad,' and I'm sure he'll say something like, 'It's good, but I love your version of 'Little Drummer Boy'!' My dad loves my live albums - he's obsessed with the live version of 'Little Drummer Boy' for some reason. Mark Kozelek

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer. Matt Cameron

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I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer. Matty Mullins

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