John Otto Quotes

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

I just play drums, mate.

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

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

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

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

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

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

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

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

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

I got my first drum kit when I was six years old.

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

I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums.

My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can't lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I'd really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn't feel natural to me.

When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Most great records really start with the drums.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

Drumming is my middle name.

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