Famous Quotes & Sayings

You should get a hearing aid. It sounded like the drum solo to Stairway to Heaven to me.

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.

Tell them that the drummer is fully available.

To a degree, the Japanese market has been marching to its own drummer for a number of years due to its economic difficulties.

T.K. is ready to get back out and play, but his drums are pretty much a mess, so we have to get him some new ones.

There's not going to be a drum roll or anything like that. I think you'll see the (spring) game and you'll realize who the No. 1 quarterback is going to be. If you want some official announcement, I'll do it after the game.

Brittany Howard

There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.

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.

Billy Higgins

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

Eric Carmen

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

Alessandro Cortini

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

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.

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

Jeremy Piven

I have been drumming my whole life.

Max Roach

he American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

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

Hip-hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat. There's not much of a visual component. There's no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.

Hip hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat, ... Theres not much of a visual component. Theres no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.

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

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

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.

Phil Collins

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

Phil Collins

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

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.

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 Bonham

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

Philip Selway

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!