Tommy Lee 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.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I love drums and still play frequently.

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 was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

I love music and I love to dance.

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

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

I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

I learned how to play the drums... it got me into LTD.

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

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

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

I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.

I got my first drum kit when I was six years old.

I just play drums, mate.

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.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.