How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

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

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

I love to travel, playing drums, and being on the road as not many people can say that.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift.

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

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

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

Like, back in Albania, all my cousins sing, they play the drums, they play guitar, it's like... a thing!

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

The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

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

For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

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