Drummer Quotes

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

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

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

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

Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.

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

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

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

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

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.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

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

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

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.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

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

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

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

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

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

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

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

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!

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

I think I was the best drummer!

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

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

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.