Percussion Instrument Quotes

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

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

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

Playing my drums is therapy.

I have been a tabla player since the age of four.

When I was in the marching band, I used to take my snare drum and turn it over and use my drumstick and scratch on the other side. That was just being creative.

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.

When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.

My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

I studied classical percussion for ten years.

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.