Vinnie Paul Quotes

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in front of 15,000 people. As long as I know that I'm about to put my horn to my mouth and play some notes, that's what I most look forward to.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.