Drummer quotes

I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.
-- Anthony Langston

#Drunk #Sticks #Drummer

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
-- Bessie Smith

#Want #Drummer #Tempo

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
-- Bill Bruford

#Bills #Fabulous #Drummer

A drummer is usually like the backbone.
-- Brody Dalle

#Drummer #Backbone

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
-- Buddy Rich

#Way #Influence #Drummer

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
-- Buddy Rich

#Swings #Band #Drummer

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
-- Caroline Corr

#Female #Looks #Drummer

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
-- Chet Baker

#Drummer

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
-- Chet Baker

#Drummer #All Time #All Time Favorite

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

#Sitting #Drummer #Bedroom

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
-- Ian Paice

#Musician #Drummer

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
-- Isaac Hanson

#Wall #Stronger #Drummer

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.
-- J. Robbins

#Tunes #Ems #Drummer

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
-- Jam Master Jay

#Guitar #Drummer

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
-- Jimmy Page

#Doubt #Moments #Drummer

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
-- John Bonham

#Names #Car #Drummer

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

#People #Rock N Roll #Drummer

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
-- Larry Mullen, Jr.

#Song #Matter #Drummer

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
-- Lou Gramm

#Singing #Littles #Drummer

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
-- Malin Akerman

#Years #Band #Drummer

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
-- Max Roach

#Men #Orchestra #Drummer

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
-- Max Roach

#Roles #Resentment #Drummer

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
-- Mel Torme

#Feelings #Rich #Drummer

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
-- Micky Dolenz

#Brain #World #Drummer

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

#School #Years #Drummer

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
-- Noel Redding

#Different #Drummer #Hendrix

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

#Hips #Sound #Drummer

He's (Ringo Starr) not even the best drummer in the Beatles....
-- Paul McCartney

#Guitar #Drummer #Ringo

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
-- Pharoah Sanders

#Music #Jazz #Drummer

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
-- Phil Collins

#Play #Singers #Drummer

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
-- Phil Collins

#Oscars #Proud #Drummer

Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
-- Rachel Trachtenburg

#Daughter #Player #Drummer

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
-- Ringo Starr

#Drummer #Thirteen #Wanted

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
-- Ringo Starr

#Play #Rooms #Drummer

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
-- Srikumar Rao

#Drummer

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

#Interviews #Drummer #Youtube

Make the drummer sound good.
-- Steve Lacy

#Crafts #Sound #Drummer

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
-- Steve Winwood

#Mistake #Bars #Drummer

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Drummer #Wanted

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
-- Thelonious Monk

#Mean #Jazz #Drummer

I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
-- Tre Cool

#Four #Drummer

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
-- Tre Cool

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #Drummer

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
-- Tre Cool

#Musical #Trouble #Drummer

I wanted to be a professional drummer.
-- Walter Payton

#Drummer #Wanted

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
-- Eric Hernandez

#Drummer #Modern #Website

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Firsts #Drummer #Obsessed

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.
-- Jay Watson

#Real #Trying #Drummer

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!
-- Michael Bland

#Athlete #Drummer

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
-- Sean Kinney

#Thinking #Female #Drummer

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

#Metallica #Drummer #Worst

I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.
-- Theresa Wayman

#Thinking #Quitting #Drummer

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.
-- Thighpaulsandra

#Ideas #Able #Drummer

There aren't enough girl drummers.
-- Tobi Vail

#Girl #Drummer #Enough

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
-- Tony Palermo

#Play #Kind #Drummer

The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.
-- Z'EV

#Training #Majority #Drummer

My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.
-- Aaron Bruno

#World #Drummer #My Favorite

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

#Opportunity #Black #Drummer

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.
-- Patricia Barber

#Want #Drummer #Right Now

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
-- Elvin Jones

#Essentials #Drummer #Fine