Drum Instrument Quotes

#1. My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

Evelyn Glennie

#2. Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

Rick Astley

#3. 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

Florence Welch

#4. Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

William A. Dembski

#5. I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

Buddy Rich

#6. It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum.

Evelyn Glennie

#7. They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man,' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?

Gillian Bronte Adams

#8. I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

Jane Hamilton

#9. Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

Mira Grant

#10. We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

Joan Baez

#11. Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

Andy Richter

#12. And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.

Dave Edmunds

#13. And each man kills the thing he loves.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I have a huge passion for literature.

Emily Perkins

#15. It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

Ethan Suplee

#16. Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

Jasper Fforde

#17. Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

Levon Helm

#18. You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

Billy Higgins

#19. I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

Larry Norman

#20. I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Ornette Coleman

#21. I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them
when they were so stiff they were almost dead.

Richard M. Schulze

#22. It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

Jay Watson