Drum Quotes

• When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • World
  • Dead
  • Drum

• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Married

• I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Tired
  • Manipulation

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• I've tried electric drum pads, but I hate them. I even had a huge, double-bass electronic kit in my last apartment that I played on through headphones, and I had that for maybe two days and that was it!

  

  Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
  • Hate
  • Played
  • Drum

• Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singer
  • Contract
  • Drum

• The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Emptiness
  • Loud
  • Drum

• 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
  • Time
  • Different
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Playing
  • Drum
  • Hieroglyphics

• What's really good is African drum music.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Music
  • Drum

• Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Play
  • Drum

• When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Writing
  • Drum
  • Full Room

• We were doing this outdoor show in Salt Lake City, we were about a mile above sea level to start with and it was about 45 minutes before I got my first break. During the sound check they didn't have a drape up but for the show they put it up right behind the drum kit. When I got up, the lighting rig was really low and I hit my head on it, and grabbed hold of what I thought was a solid wall but it was the drape and I fell off the back of the stage. I almost lost a testicle. I had quite a bruise.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Stage
  • Break
  • Lighting

• If you listen to bands like Public Enemy or A Tribe Called Quest, you can hear in the samples that the snare would sometimes go very dull - like on one snare. So, to replicate that, we’d record a drum break and Geoff would get it on vinyl, then he’d chuck it on the floor and kick it around, so it was a bit crackly, get it on his deck and just scratch on the snare drum bit to make it go dull. That’s the sort of attention to detail that made the record.

  

  Adrian Utley Portishead
  • Record
  • Bands
  • Vinyl

• The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Mother
  • Heard
  • Drum

• My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Sign
  • Drum
  • Vocals

• I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Inspiration
  • Drummer
  • Gene Krupa

• Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Deep
  • Secret

• To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Marathon
  • Drum
  • Same Time

• I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Music
  • Long
  • May

• I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Song
  • Playing
  • Decided

• It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Hit
  • Solo
  • Drum

• Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Justice

• I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Job
  • Simple

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