Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Moore

I think they were trying to drum up a little news that I might still be alive,

I was kind of nervous during the drum break. But I didn't mess up, so that was good." ()

Alex Kapranos

Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine in one hand and the floor tom between his legs -- just to experiment with different ways of setting up.

Dave Grohl

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

Charlie Watts

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Vanilla Ice

I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

With the drum and the skin of the antelope all the gods, that sway the battle, have scared away the enemies.

Pat Mastelotto

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Instead of tapping your toes or drumming your fingers, you can go to the Internet.

Hey Bart, why don't you set up your drum mics.

Alessandro Cortini

It's not as interesting as the last time out, when we had all the drummer problems.

Billy Higgins

Not just younger people but older people, too, because the drums are that kind of instrument where people are not intimidated.

Ikue Mori

It's a very primitive way of drumming like the way you play with big sticks: this is called taiko. That was a big influence on me.

Michael Young

It sounds just like the sumo drumming I heard on ESPN last night.

That has really shaped us more than anything else over the past year. One of the goals for this new record was to lay down more grooves than we had on Katonah and make something truly danceable. Having two drummers on stage will reinforce that element for us.

They were trying to drum up money for the mortuary side.

Nigel Kennedy

No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric stuff. But only when there is a need for it. I like rocking out. And the electric violin is useful for many other things. It's useful for really good effects and it's also great for rocking out, with the drums and the bass, get into really heavy stuff. At the moment I'm not really doing any projects involving that thing.

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

The guy who won the Pearl Drums drum-off was a 15-year-old kid from right here in this neighborhood. And that was some serious competition, too.

John Bonham

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

The drums are where we initially placed them and have not leaked into the soil.

Amanda Palmer

The drums are a lot more integrated into the fabric of the songwriting instead of just layered on top, like it was when we first met.

The drum is the heart of our people,

John Lennon

The Legendary Life of a Rock Star Drummer

Jimmy Chamberlin

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

Gabrielle Aplin

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

Andrew Bird

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

We raised all that money in one evening and we had great music. I take my drums to musical events and play with jam bands. We just jam... it's a very tight community.

Neil Peart

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Phil Collins

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.