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Drummer Quotes

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.

Good Ideas Know Drummer Always Up

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

David Thibodeau

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Bruce Springsteen

Time Name Kind Drummer Band Marines

Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.

Day Me Guitar Drummer First Rhythm

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

People Drummer Mental Even Set Had

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

Gordon Lightfoot

Funny Look Back Drummer Band Quite

I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.

Think Feel Enjoy You Done Drummer

The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.

Drummer Band Real Backbone

Actually, 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

Dreams Drummer Entertainment Industry

Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.

Best Genius Drummer Ever Musical

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Me Drummer Just Groovy Hip Sounds

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

I Am Sitting Drummer Bedroom Got Am

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'

Jimmy Chamberlin

Done Want Drummer Things Guy Just

Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.

Music Fall Done Boy Drummer Way

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.

Drummer Tour Needs He His Says

I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.

Best Person Drummer Never First

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.

Time Me You New Group Drummer

Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.

Time Credit White New Drummer Gone

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

Young Drummer Rock Become More Band

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Money I Am Play Drummer First Drums

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

Singing Guitar Drummer Kid Found

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.

Good Deep Drummer Band Over Drum

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

Freedom Think Create Drummer Write

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

Great Challenge Down Play Drummer

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