At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

Stromae

When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

Alice Dellal

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

Anderson Paak

One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.

Andy Hurley

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Caroline Corr

Drumming is so hard.

Chandler Riggs

You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

Damian Marley

It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

Damien Chazelle

All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.

Danny Carey

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Dave Grohl

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

Dick Dale

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.

Janet Weiss

It took a thing like my father's death to make me decide that I actually wanted to pursue drumming.

Jason Bonham

I was really into motocross. I started racing when I was 10 years old and did very, very well. That was my dream, if anything, more than drumming.

Jason Bonham

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.

Jim Root

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

Jimmy Chamberlin

The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.

Jimmy Page

Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.

Joey Jordison

The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn't repeat itself. The players didn't stick to a format or formula.

Joey Jordison

That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.

Joey Jordison