Drum Playing Quotes

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

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

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.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.

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.

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that way you're supposed to. I like to be above it.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

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

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.

I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.