Great Drummer Profiles and Quotes

Here is various information on some of the great drummers of our time. Hopefully this information will give you some insight into their backgrounds and what has helped them get to where they are in the world of drumming.

I've also included great quotes from various drummers that I have picked up in reading my drum magazines

Chad Smith - Red Hot Chili Peppers

John Bonham - Led Zeppelin

Steve White - Paul Weller's Band

Elvin Jones - Various - One of the greatest Jazz Drummers ever

Great Quote from Ray Yslas -Drummer with Christina Aguilera

Great Quote from J R Robinson - Studio Session Great for over 40 years

Other Motivational Quotes I like:

Tiger Woods - The Greatest Golfer in the World at present. He has one ten "majors" till Dec 2005 when he turned 30. This is an extract from an interview.

Woods does not doubt for a moment that he is still going forward. "People" he said "keep asking me if I can improve any more...are you kidding?

"You never get there and any time you think you've arrived in a a sport it's time to quit. That's what so excites me about 2006. I know I can be better that I am today."

From a golfing point of view that is scary because he is the best golfer in the world now but to me it just shows why "great" people are great they never think they are the best, they just continue to work on how to get better.

This applies to us all in a drumming sense too.

So consider something that you are not good at and go and practice it, just in the same way a "great" would do, then you will get better and then maybe become a "great" in the process.