Jason Bonham Quotes

Anybody can be a drummer.

I didn't start playing drums until I was 12, for school band; they didn't have any saxophones left. My step-pops had a kit at the house, and I had never done anything that I understood so quick. It was so natural. It was the most fun and consistent thing in my life.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

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

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

I've been playing drums since I was 7.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

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.

I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.

Drums were my first instrument.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I learned how to play the drums... it got me into LTD.

I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.