Quotes About Creativity

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

For my first album, I thought it was most important for people to hear my voice and to not let it be drowned out by too many lasers and other sounds.

I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion.

I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.

Every time you hear an 808 drum machine beat on one of my songs, it comes from Freaknik.

Anybody can be a drummer.

We were the first group where the drummer was the front man.

One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

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.

When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.

I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!

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.

I love playing drums and helping out.

Look, I love to sit in with small groups and play the drums. What's wrong with that?

I didn't want to work on dry, old plays written by the dry, old dead.

My wife let me have one room in the house that I can do whatever I want with so I got my dual monitors set-up here and my PC and I'm good to go.

I am also a voice over artist, so I always like to dub myself.

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.