Drum Quotes

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

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Hit
  • Solo
  • Drum

• Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Child

• 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 Rush
  • Interesting
  • Drum
  • Coordination

• Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Music
  • America
  • Respond

• Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dumb
  • Hole
  • Drum

• The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Wise
  • Animal
  • Drum

• I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Heart
  • Drum
  • Dances

• I’ve never lost that passion and I get excited and I love drums. I buy drums, I collect drums, and I’m still like a little kid. And if I change my drum kit around sometimes, just make it different, it keeps it exciting, you know what I mean. Some drummers, they’re so used to their setup they just play the same thing. But I like switching things around and keeping it exciting.

  

  John Tempesta The Cult
  • Passion
  • Exciting
  • Drum

• The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

  

  Steven Adler
  • Ability
  • Rule
  • Drum

• If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Problem
  • Drum

• 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
  • Style
  • Blood
  • Bands

• I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

  

  Anthony Langston
  • Drummer
  • Sticks
  • Drum

• I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Drum

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