Beat The Drum Quotes

#1. I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

James Fallows

#2. You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. But instead of letting yourself go to where you want to be, you beat the drum of what-is, and so you hold yourself apart from your expansion - and you feel terrible while you do it.

Esther Hicks

#4. We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong.
The Cowboy's Lament

Leif Enger

#5. 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.

Vanilla Ice

#6. That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

Charlie Hunter

#7. The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

John Densmore

#8. It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

Marty Stuart

#9. Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum. ~T.F. Hodge

T.F. Hodge

#10. Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm

Nikki Giovanni

#11. This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog.

Seth MacFarlane

#12. I always march to the beat of my own drum... I always have, ALWAYS will - Samantha Fontien

Samantha Fontien

#13. I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

Dave Eggers

#14. But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.

Ronald Perelman

#15. As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

Gerald Durrell

#16. This valley was more than my home. It beat in me like the drum of my own heart. Only

Paula McLain

#17. He leaned down and placed his lips on mine and gave me the most delicious kiss of my entire life. I saw fireworks light up the night sky. My heart beat like a drum. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I loved him, and that made this kiss the best of my entire life. This kiss was the real thing.

Shannon McCrimmon

#18. The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising" which Broadrick was quoted as saying, "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim".

Justin Broadrick

#21. The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.

Isabel Yosito

#22. The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground; Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round; The bivouac of the dead.

Theodore O'Hara

#23. People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls ... that i dont dress like other girls ... that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person ... i go to the beat of my own drum.

Miley Cyrus

#24. 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.

Walter Moers

#25. I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Jay Inslee

#26. Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

Dana Gould

#27. Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don't get what you want.

Sherry Argov

#28. We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.

Heather K. O'Hara

#29. I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.

Travis Barker

#30. When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message ... that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

Mary Meeker

#31. When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

Ruth Ozeki

#32. Do I look like a mainstream girl?" She always marched to the beat of her own drum. (Angie)
He traced the short strands along her hairline. "You look beautiful." (Eoin)

Annie Nicholas

#33. I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Elton John

#34. The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.

Juliette Lewis

#35. I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

Chuck Palahniuk

#36. While everybody else marches to the beat of their own important drum. I constantly feel hungry, metaphorically and literally.

Cecelia Ahern

#37. When you march to the beat of your own drum, you'll always be in sync.

Colby R. Rice

#38. I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.

Gillian Zinser

#39. Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Alexander Payne

#41. But I run, laughing, my speed increasing, the steady thump of my heart against my ribcage like the beat of a ceremonial drum. I'm back. And life is good.

Lisa Amowitz

#42. I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Mos Def

#43. I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#44. I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

Tommy Lee

#45. I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

Taylor Swift

#46. I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Isla Fisher

#47. Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Pharrell Williams

#48. You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Linda Ronstadt

#49. She was trying to make him understand that she would never march to the beat of anyone else's drum again and he was arrogantly assuring her that she would if he were the drummer!

Sandra Marton

#50. Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple - these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

Vladimir Nabokov

#51. There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

Nick Cave

#52. 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.

Archie Shepp

#53. I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

Richard Sherman

#54. 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