Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chet Baker

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Chet Baker

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Eric Carmen

It's not just one of these reunions where it's the original drummer and three guys you never heard of.

Cedric Simmons

I told him it didn't matter. I had Michael Drum on me.

Evelyn Glennie

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Mitchel Musso

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Joe Vitt

Do you want a drum roll? Yes. I think he gets better every day, he really does.

James Mercer

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.

Alan Price

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Chad Smith

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Billy Unger

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Beth Orton

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

Beth Orton

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

Carlos Santana

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Carlos Santana

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Valerie Cunningham

We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Rod Paige

whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue.

Joyce Brothers

We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone.

Dave Ross

We're still interested in a sale of the property. We don't know how we could just go and give it away.

Andrew Burgreen

We're looking for investors that would be interested in using the tax credits,

George Weah

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

Todd Berry

I want to see points. We're going to have the pedal down.

William Hatcher

I shouldn't have picked up my dribble. I'm a better player than that.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Guy Hansen

The wins haven't picked up, but the quality of his stuff has been very good.

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Alice Johnson

The whole back porch is gone. And the shelter over there, it just picked the posts and all up out of the ground.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Joe Condit

We haven't picked out any specific properties yet. This process is just beginning. It probably will take a year to sort out which ones we want to buy.

Gary Barnett

But we've sputtered at times on offense, especially in the red zone. But at the end of the half, we picked up things there.

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

G-Eazy

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

Jack Canfield

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Noam Chomsky

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Ted Sarandos

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Morgan Ensberg

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Joel Silver

I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Rudy Rodriguez

A lot of firefighters had been there since Day One.

Donna Young

They have just killed us since about noon. It's been crazy.

Kyle Orton

They do a lot of stuff and I'm sure they're going to do more stuff since it's going to be my first start,

Publilius Syrus

He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

Geraldine Chaplin

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

Joss Whedon

I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!

Travis Barker

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Mario Batali

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Joan Didion

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Clint Dempsey

You have to set the tone early. We're just going to play hard.

Robert Holden

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Steve Vai

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.