Lou Gramm Quotes

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.

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

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Now, when you've been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don't think about it every day like, 'Oh my God, I'm the singer of Nightwish!'

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I've always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that's kind of come.

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for me.

I actually played guitar before I played drums. And I always play guitar on the Slipknot albums as well, as well as being responsible for a lot of the songwriting.