Paul Desmond Quotes

I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I always had a fascination with music.

I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

Nobody had any idea that 'If You Could Read My Mind' would become a hit single.

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

When I was 18 years old and playing the drums, I never thought that I would have a website and that people will be buying my autographed picture and paying money for it.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.

I never set out to have a No. 1 single, not at all, man.