Drummer Role Quotes

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

He was just dad to me. I never really looked at him as Mr. Supergroup, John Bonham.

When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.

I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.

For Slipknot, I'd say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is.

With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

We were the first group where the drummer was the front man.