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Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head. -- Chad Smith
He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum -- Ken Kesey
Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off. -- Dana Gould
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! -- Omar Khayyam
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. -- Carl Sandburg
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way. -- Rumi
I saw her do 'Different Drum' and thought, that's what I'm gonna do. I don't look that good in cut-offs, but that's what I'm gonna do. -- Stevie Nicks
Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton. -- Dom DeLuise
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time. -- Gunter Grass
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.''Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar. -- Ben Aaronovitch
And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum. -- Cassandra Clare
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass. -- Fred Durst
If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum. -- Neil Peart
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. -- Billy Higgins
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. -- Taylor Hawkins
To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time. -- Neil Peart
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. -- Janna Levin
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. -- Charles Baudelaire
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. -- Sam Kinison
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum. -- Taylor Hawkins
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest. -- John Bonham
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. -- Jean Giraudoux
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments. -- Kaki King
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. -- Dave Eggers
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting. -- Ice T
Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound. -- Simon Sinek
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum. -- Pharrell Williams
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight. -- Steven Tyler
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination. -- Chad Smith
I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could. -- James Mercer
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. -- Evelyn Glennie
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in. -- Tommy Lee
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. -- Jack White
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. -- Afrika Bambaataa
When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there. -- Jason Aldean
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. -- Lou Reed
What's really good is African drum music. -- Fiona Apple
Strike up the drum and march courageously. -- Christopher Marlowe
Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath. -- Suheir Hammad
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set. -- John Otto
I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic. -- Brian Chippendale
A hare is not caught with a drum. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum! -- Omar Khayyam
I will not dance to your war drum! -- Suheir Hammad
Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum. -- Tom Althouse
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. -- Rumi
History marches to the drum of a clear idea. -- W. H. Auden
The voice of the drum is a spirit thing. -- Mickey Hart
Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone. -- Beck
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer. -- Carl Sandburg
Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. -- Charles Dickens
I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to. -- Gene Krupa
The first drum beat we all heard was our mother. -- John Densmore
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. -- Fran Lebowitz
I kind of go to the beat of my own drum. -- Richard Sherman
I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. -- Ajay Naidu
I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live. -- Matt Tong
Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse -- John Bonham
Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time -- Cyndi Lauper
The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not? -- Xun Zi
I am the drum on which God is beating out his message. -- Joan of Arc
There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one. -- e. e. cummings
Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum. -- Clive Woodward
My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that. -- Jimmy Carl Black
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks. -- Jon Fishman
Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed -- Robinson Jeffers
The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks. -- Isabel Yosito
My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that. -- Jimmy Carl Black
Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions. -- Shannon L. Alder
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks. -- Albert Pike
Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum. -- Bear Bryant
The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that. -- Reed Mullin
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. -- George Bernard Shaw
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. -- Amy Lowell
I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day. -- Todd Rundgren
Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum -- Nicki Minaj
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. -- Humphrey Lyttelton
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. -- Chinua Achebe
I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars. -- Rumi
Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts. -- Philip Selway
You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo. -- Clive James
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. -- Ikue Mori
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries. -- John Donne
In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them. -- Lin Brehmer
The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. -- John McPhee
I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks. -- Jarod Kintz
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. -- Phil Collins
I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music. -- Kevin Shields
I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum. -- Anthony Langston
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio. -- Billy Sherwood
I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum. -- Nick Mason
I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound. -- Mark Kozelek
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me. -- Tommy Lee
The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured. -- Joey Sturgis
I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record. -- Alexis Taylor
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something. -- Jeff Beck
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. -- Afrojack
It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo, -- Paul Desmond
I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad. -- Travis Barker
I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun. -- Queen Latifah
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. -- Francis Arinze
I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record. -- Ben Harper
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. -- Mos Def
I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. -- Isla Fisher
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band. -- Chris Daughtry
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that. -- Sivamani
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. -- Joseph Joubert
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly. -- D.B.C. Pierre
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that. -- Armand Assante
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that -- Armand Assante
Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum. ~T.F. Hodge -- T.F. Hodge
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. -- Rumi
I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. -- Elton John
I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum. -- Elvis Presley
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing. -- John Otto

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