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!
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
I wanted to be a professional drummer.
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
