Quotes About Drummer

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I don't play beats. I hate playing beats. I'm an orchestration drummer. I'm a musical drummer.

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

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.

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.

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

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

Pete was getting on the others' nerves. It wasn't that he did anything wrong: he was a nice guy and a good enough drummer. It was simply that his personality was different: he preferred to sit on his own rather than join in with the others' non-stop banter.

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

In my case, it's hard to be like a simple drummer who doesn't play all over the place.

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

My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role anyway.

LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.

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

I had success as a drummer and was doing very well - I could send my mom to Best Buy and she could go buy my album, you know?

I'm the best live rock drummer. That's what I think of myself. That's who I am. I can't help it.

I don't think I've ever met a drummer who didn't tell me that my dad was an influence. He's a tough act to follow.

My dad was a drummer and would always have music on around the house.

If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.

I wanted to be a drummer but my brother Iggor was better at it, so I took up guitar instead.

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.

I'm a visionary drummer and I have been for a long, long, long time.