Drum Quotes - page 8

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain. (Kabir)
If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum. View quote
Neil Peart
To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time. View quote
Neil Peart
It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. View quote
Neil Peart
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing. View quote
Neil Peart
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
One of the most common failings [when writing a drum track] is repetition. Nobody wants to hear that same stupid 16-line bass-snare pattern throughout the WHOLE song. Didn't your mother ever teach you that variety is the spice of life? View quote
Andrew Sega
The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts. View quote
Tommy Lee
Drake, he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Captain, art tha sleepin' there below?) Slung atween the roundshot, list'ning for the drum, And dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. View quote
Henry Newbolt
Roger: I was super, crazy little! Yeah, like my dad's a guitar player and my uncle was in bands when I was growing up. I sat behind a drum set when I was like six years old. I started taking piano lessons when I was like nine. So, like I've been around music my whole, entire, entire life. View quote
Roger Manganelli
Poets, orators, even philosophes, say the same things about fame we were told as boys to encourage us to win prizes. What they tell children to make them prefer being praised to eating jam tarts is the same idea constantly drummed into us to encourage us to sacrifice our real interests in the hope of being praised by our contemporaries or by posterity. (Nicolas Chamfort)
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. View quote
Alan Watts
They're puttin' music to AIDS germs--putting a drum machine behind them and a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing them, goddamn it. These aren't even really people, man. It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good. Don't you see? View quote
Bill Hicks
Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum. View quote
Omar Khayyám
Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm. View quote
Nikki Giovanni
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. View quote
Mos Def
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things. View quote
Penn Jillette
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound. View quote
Tom DeLonge
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come. View quote
Johnny Cash
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The new leadership in India is taking shape quietly, without any drum beating through the newspapers. ... Various centers, the centers of energy and strength in the life of society are gaining tremendous momentum. May be, the surging new generation of today appears to have lost its bearing, to have lost its soul. But it is absolutely certain that one day it will have its own leader and prophet.... I am absolutely confident that the phoenix of a new leadership is rising from the ashes of all its failure. Soon the world will witness the lightning hidden in its beak and the storm hidden in its wings. (Baba Amte)
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Dumb as a drum with a hole in it, sir. View quote
Charles Dickens
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. View quote
Janna Levin
I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum. View quote
Janna Levin