Roger Taylor Quotes

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

I play really bad punk rock guitar.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

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

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.

I write music. I'm in a band.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

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

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to serve it, but talent is a scientist.