Drummer Quotes
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March to the beat of your own drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
— Manfred Mann
To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain
— Richard Marx
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
— Isaac Hanson
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
— Eric Hernandez
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
— Ringo Starr
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
— Bessie Smith
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
— Rick Astley
I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
— Dave Grohl
My inner Jiminy was screaming at me to stop playing with fire again, but I was a moth drawn to a flaming hot drummer.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
— Ringo Starr
I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
— St. Vincent
Jaz is their drummer. He's pretty damn good too. Hell, he's pretty damn good at everything he's ever tried. Creative little shit.
— Lissa Matthews
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
— Matt Cameron
I wanted to be a professional drummer.
— Walter Payton
Phil is a real drummer's drummer.
— Colin Greenwood
What's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?
— Dave Grohl
Magic is the cheat codes for the world.
— Warren Ellis
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.
— Gunther Schuller
I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.
— Bill Bruford
Make the drummer sound good.
— Steve Lacy
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
— Gordon Lightfoot
If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
— Duke Ellington
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
— Keith Richards
Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.
— Tommy Lee
I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.
— Thighpaulsandra
If you hear a different drummer, don't march - dance!
— Carolyn V. Hamilton
But blasting the drummer into the river, though it would have been easy at this range, was not a good way to be inconspicuous.
— Neal Stephenson
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
— Henry Rollins
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
— Israel Broussard
Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.
— Matt Tong
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
— Taylor Hawkins
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
— Pete Townshend
I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.
— Anthony Langston
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
— Johnny Rivers
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
— Glenn Kotche
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
— Brooke Burke
There aren't enough girl drummers.
— Tobi Vail
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
— Brody Armstrong
Yngve came in and said that John Bonham, the drummer in Led Zeppelin, was on one of the songs.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
— Wayne Coyne
Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.
— Patricia Barber
I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.
— Bill Orcutt
Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.
— Slim Moon
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
— Narada Michael Walden
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
— Damien Chazelle
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
— Jam Master Jay
I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.
— Bobby Keys
Are you gonna sit back there and whack off or are you gonna give us a count? It's me and you to start, drummer boy. I'm ready when you are.
— Shari Copell
Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
— Hal Sparks
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
— Adrian Belew
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
— Damien Chazelle
Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.
— Eva Sloan
Creationists, the right-wing Christians, creationists believe every word Genesis says. I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer.
— Jimmy Carr
Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
— Noel Gallagher
My soul is that of a drummer ... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
— Ringo Starr
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
— Ed Thigpen
On sunny days of summer,
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
— Tony Palermo
Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
— Rachel Trachtenburg
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
— Dave Grohl
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles
— John Lennon
You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
— Dave Grohl
Baby...drummers bang all night long!
— Joanne Schwehm
At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.
— Jason Schwartzman
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
— Ringo Starr
There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
— E. E. Cummings
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
— Frederick Lenz
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
— Buddy Rich
I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
— Ringo Starr