Top 285 Drums Quotes

As a rock band, you’re slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

I’ve played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I’ve always played guitars and drums and stuff.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

My son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s been on the drums. He’s got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

When I was 18 years old and playing the drums, I never thought that I would have a website and that people will be buying my autographed picture and paying money for it.

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument – besides violin or cello.

It’s been years and years and years I’ve been playing the drums, and they’re still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

One very important side of my playing lies in rhythm; I have a very percussive style. It’s one I’ve developed with Dream Theater over the years, and requires the guitar to be very locked into the rhythm of the drums… way more than what would normally entail.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

My first job was with The O’Jays playing drums.

I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much anything that’s a strumming, string type thing.

From the first album I’m playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of ’em, and drums, and guitars. I did that on almost every album.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

In the studio, we sometimes will add bass or some other stuff, like more layers of the same guitar part that’s already there, but ultimately, the sound is about guitar and drums.

Of course drums weren’t meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you’re upside-down, your feet don’t want to sit on the pedals.

My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop – a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

I play the drums really, really badly.

I’ve been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It’s my life… it’s been my life, all my life, and I don’t think it could ever become boring for me.

My heroes were Eddie Van Halen – especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV – Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

Go-go is so drum and Congo based. It’s almost like music from Africa. The drums like on ‘Planet Paradise’ are deeply African-rooted. It’s really bouncy and the same speed as go-go music. That’s an example of the influence go-go had on me.

For KRS-One, I have a specific sound – sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn’t matter – not a problem.

I learned how to play the drums… it got me into LTD.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old ’50s and ’60s pop and soul and doo-wop records. I was chopping those up and putting loops and drums on them and just rapping over them.

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the saxophone, I knew that sound is what I wanted.

I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of like a dream come true. And now, Guitar Hero, I can’t do that anymore. It’s nothing like doing it on stage. I kinda wish I had a fake band, and we could go on tour.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

If it hadn’t worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I’d be happy there, too.

It’s really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

For instance, if you’re playing a record with drums – horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I’m like Shania Twain with that stuff: That don’t impress me much. I’ll take wit and brains over the ability to carry a tune any day.

To me, I always felt like drums have to be the support and the driving factor in a song, and there’s places where the drummer has to show off and do things and get the spotlight, but not all the time. You’ve gotta pick and choose. And it’s always gotta be about the song. That’s really the bottom line.

I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

I found my childhood scrapbook and there’s an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he’s been playing the drums and he’d only been playing drums six years in 1970.

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.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn’t know a lot about drums at the time.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I have memories of doing ‘Toys In The Attic’ and being on the floor next to my drums, on my back, laughing.

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums… I’m working on mastering the accordion.

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother’s a drummer and I’ve always been jealous that he’s such a good drummer. I always try to play but it’s always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name ’em, it’s just how it’s always been.

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

I love playing drums and helping out.

The way I play the drums, it’s becoming tougher as I get older.

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience – I go up and out, right, left and back.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, ‘What are you doing back there?’

I like being in the back. I’ve done that for so many years, I’m really comfortable doing it. I don’t like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone.

When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that I hear on drums, I try to emulate with my words, dropping on the same patterns that them beats or them notes would hit.

I wanted to play drums and if I didn’t play drums, I wouldn’t make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.

My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I’ve surpassed that.

What better to get all the anger and stuff out for what I do in Slipknot than to play the drums? You’re punching everything, really fast, concentrated.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it’s like out there.

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.