Caroline Corr Quotes

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.

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 to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I played. I had a drum set at home, and I would just bang on it. I'd even go on the Internet and study basic beats and so forth.

Drums were my first instrument.

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.

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

I had no musical training at all.

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved.

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.

You can never learn enough about music.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

I've been playing drums since I was 7.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.