Max Weinberg Quotes

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

Drums were my first instrument.

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

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

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

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

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 look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

I love drums and still play frequently.

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.