Tommy Lee Quotes

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

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.

Drumming is so hard.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

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

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

Anybody can be a drummer.

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

I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.

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.

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

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

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.