Vinnie Paul Quotes

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

I'm a bass player and I'm a drummer - I'm a big fan of bass players.

Probably for drums, a guy I really enjoyed watching is Simon Phillips. I've seen him play with The Who and with Pete Townshend on his own - a really great drummer.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

Drumming is my middle name.

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

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.

I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.

My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

When I first came out with the Winery Dogs, I had a Bonham set-up. That was such a departure from the huge kits that I had become known for. It was really enjoyable.

You don't have to be a great drummer to be the most important guy in the band.

With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

I found my childhood scrapbook and there's an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he's been playing the drums and he'd only been playing drums six years in 1970.

The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.

In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.

Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

I play the drums really, really badly.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming, holding his ears: 'I can't hear anything. I can't hear any instruments.' And I was rubbing my hands going, 'Great.'