Bill Kreutzmann Quotes

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 think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

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

Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.

Anybody can be a drummer.

Both my brothers are drummers.

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 guess I did make my name out of my drumming, and I have the big drum sets, and I'm doing all these crazy, odd-time signatures, so, yeah, I guess drumming was very important to what made me popular.

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I love drums and still play frequently.

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

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.

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.

When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.

I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

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.

My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad was, like, one of them old musicians, and he played in, like, loads of different bands in the '70s and '80s. Him and my brother were kind of like my main inspirations.

I've never been a huge fan of drum solos.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.