Drum Quotes

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
He who marches out of line hears another drum. View quote
Ken Kesey
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. View quote
William Butler Yeats
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio. View quote
Billy Sherwood
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying. View quote
Compay Segundo
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. View quote
Ikue Mori
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. View quote
Lou Reed
One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples. (Khaled Hosseini)
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks. View quote
Albert Pike
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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. View quote
Walter Moers
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. View quote
Vanilla Ice
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest. View quote
John Bonham
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much. View quote
Travis Barker
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me. View quote
Travis Barker
I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good. View quote
Travis Barker
Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world. (Andy Hertzfeld)
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. View quote
Archie Shepp
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink. View quote
Aynsley Dunbar
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. View quote
Bill Laswell
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. View quote
Billy Higgins
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