Adrian Belew Quotes

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

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 played the sax at school. I was in marching band.

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

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

I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

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.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

I joined a band to hit things.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I played. I had a drum set at home, and I would just bang on it. I'd even go on the Internet and study basic beats and so forth.

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

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've played drums in bands since I was 16.

Drums were my first instrument.

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.