25 Drumming Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again. Neil Peart

Feeling Rich Tribute Take Studied Buddy Over Like House Drumming Concert Because Sticks Doing Up Wanted Again Peter Level

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis! Philip Selway

Drumming is my middle name. Ringo Starr

Name Drumming Middle

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

Myself Me Natural Guitar Better Kind More Both Feels Drumming Drums Fake How Doing Just Taught Them Play

The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight. Jimmy Page

Good First Before Changes Say Bad Introduction John Bad Times Good Times Put Drumming Passing Overnight Times Just Album

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department. Joey Kramer

Saying Me Everybody Musically About Never Had Raving Drumming Always Offer Department Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Anything Cared

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side. Mickey Hart

I guess I did make my name out of my drumming, and I have the big drum sets, and I'm doing all these crazy, odd-time signatures, so, yeah, I guess drumming was very important to what made me popular. Mike Portnoy

Me Crazy Made Important Big Sets Guess Out Name Drum Drumming Make Yeah Doing Very Did Popular

With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it's more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way. Mike Portnoy

Music Me Edge Band Coldplay Progressive Approach Way Flying Dream More Colors Morse Drumming Territory Doing Different Theater Little Poppy Radiohead Different Way Harder Muse

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. Neil Peart

Drives Drumming Force Sprint Stamina Really

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore. Neil Peart

Life Time Age School My Life Nothing Else Teens Everything Adjusted Eclipsed Through Disappeared Obsessed Drum Until Drumming Well Fairly Became Existed Up Done Anymore Lessons Socially Started

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. Neil Peart

Jazz Drumming Bullies Blood

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming. Pat Mastelotto

Sorry Satisfied Never Drumming

My drumming is always an experiment. Pat Mastelotto

Experiment Drumming Always

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming. Sophie Hawley-Weld

Dance Brown Drumming West Trained African

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school. Stromae

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You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song like 'Ritual,' a song like 'Absolution' or 'Idolatrine.' You need to know your classic drumming and your classic guitar. Tobias Forge

I miss the physicality of drumming. There's immediateness about it that I'm always striving for in my acting. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession. I certainly wish I could spend more time pursuing music. It feels like a part of me I'm neglecting. Trevor St. John

Music Time Me Wish Spend Neglecting Striving About More Physicality Could Pursuing Part Wrong Miss Feels Like Drumming Always Maybe Acting Certainly Profession

Probably some of the most impressive drumming I've done is on the 'Far Beyond Driven' record. Vinnie Paul

Record Some Driven Beyond Most Drumming Impressive Done Far

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music. Yasmine Hamdan

Music You Slow Negatively Between Drummer Drumming Affect Who Fast

For Slipknot, I'd say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is. Jim Root

You Personality Job Rest Say Percent Only Drumming Your Who

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