Andrew Ridgeley Quotes

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.

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

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

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

As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.

The more rocking, the better.

But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.

I got rock in me.

I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.

I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado.

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

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.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want to get up and dance.

I love to dance. I think it's so much fun! I love classic Motown, hip-hop, pop, whatever has a good beat and is uplifting.

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

I always think about making a CD you can hear in your car, your house party, with wonderful energy for all.

Making music you can dance to is very important to me.

I just play drums, mate.

My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role anyway.