The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.
I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
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.
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go. "
My soul is that of a drummer. . . . I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
You'd probably never recognize the drummer from your favorite band ever, if they walked past you on the street. I didn't even recognize the drummer from Pink Floyd the other day, and they're one of the biggest bands in the world ever. That's their choice, they're not the front man, they don't want to be, they want to be behind their drum kit. They're always the ones in the photo shoots that look slightly uncomfortable when they're forced to wear a leather jacket.
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
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!
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
I can't consider myself a drummer any more.
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
I wanted to be a professional drummer.
