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I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. -- Mos Def
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'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum. -- Gillian Zinser
Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat. -- Ron Paul
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea. -- Jenny Lewis
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
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
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 learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process. -- Jay Inslee
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. -- Ike Turner
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. -- Neil Peart
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 always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically. -- Taylor Hawkins
Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy. -- Anders Holm
U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.' -- Jimmy Chamberlin
I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music. -- Beck
I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats. -- Roshon Fegan
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.' -- Chuck Palahniuk
The first drum beat we all heard was our mother. -- John Densmore
I kind of go to the beat of my own drum. -- Richard Sherman
The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks. -- Isabel Yosito
Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions. -- Shannon L. Alder
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. -- Chinua Achebe
Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off. -- Dana Gould
I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad. -- Travis Barker
I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. -- Isla Fisher
Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum. ~T.F. Hodge -- T.F. Hodge
daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm -- Nikki Giovanni
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully. -- Bruce Springsteen
You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me. -- Linda Ronstadt
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
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk. -- Walter Moers
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
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar. -- James Fallows

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