Drum Like Quotes

#1. She spun a hundred-eighty degrees at the end of the passageway, landed like an acrobat beside the drum hatch. "The reason. Why something would attack us even if we didn't have anything it wanted." I read it off her: "If it wasn't attacking at all. If it was defending itself.

Peter Watts

#2. When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.

Amy Lowell

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Sivamani

#6. Look at that drum of a stomach, it's like he has swallowed a country.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#7. 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

#8. When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

Slash

#9. A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him.

Rumi

#10. To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

Neil Peart

#12. 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

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

Mos Def

#14. 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

#15. I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#16. I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.

Tom Fontana

#17. 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

#18. I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

Nick Mason

#19. 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

#20. So don't tell me that I can't fit in. My heart beats like a talking drum.

Nikki Grimes

#21. I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

Trent Reznor

#22. To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

Neil Peart

#23. There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.

David Guetta

#24. I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

Rahki

#25. Hello dead girl," Isola said, ever the hostess.
"Hello heartbeat girl," said the uninvited guest. "It's like a drum, it's so fucking loud. Turn it down, will you?

Fairytales For Wilde Girls

#26. Some people are like drums, Ranga. They are only heard when you strike them. Do not be like a drum, Ranga, be heard when thou has something to say, and let the world decide.

Ian B.G. Burns

#27. If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll."

George Carlin

#28. I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to ... I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.

Alison Pill

#29. There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Matt Tong

#30. My heart was beating like it was being played by a one-armed Japanese Ondekoza drummer pounding slowly on his seven-hundred-pound drum with a caveman's club at twilight.

Walter Mosley

#31. I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Gunter Grass

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.

Bear Bryant

#35. I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

Todd Rundgren

#36. I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

Penn Jillette

#37. I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum.

Janna Levin

#38. Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Douglas William Jerrold

#39. There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.

Koren Zailckas

#40. I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

Tommy Lee

#41. Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

#42. I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Mark Kozelek

#43. 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

#44. And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum.

Cassandra Clare

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

Paula McLain

#46. I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on I have made a point of stepping outside the box and working with as many people as I can.

DJ Rap

#47. Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.

Kevin Drum

#48. I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that way you're supposed to. I like to be above it.

Jamie Cullum

#49. During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Emma Thompson

#50. We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

Richard Smalley

#51. Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.

Tinie Tempah

#52. Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

Abhishek Bachchan

#53. An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

Chuck Jones

#54. For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

Michael Musto

#55. I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards ... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.

Daron Malakian

#56. Amie blinked through the haze of her thoughts and the constant drum of the rains. A golden light swung back and forth in the distance like a pendulum and every second drew closer. Finally, Amie could tell it wasn't a faerie light but a lantern, carried by a small green-cloaked person.

Jennifer Silverwood

#57. Still, the idea continued to drum through her, like the constant patter of the rain: that no one would ever love her.

Lauren Oliver

#58. When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.

Cara Delevingne

#59. Boy you got my heartbeat running away, beating like a drum and it's coming your way..can't you hear that boom, badoom,boom,boom, badoom, boom, bass, he got that super bass..
-(right eyebrow raised)-
>>>>>

Nicki Minaj

#60. I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
of a high school marching band drum section's
pure perfection. How stoically they play
in the exhaust of a fire engine's wake.

Kristen Henderson

#61. I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.

John Trudell

#62. Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

Bear Bryant

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

T.F. Hodge

#64. 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

#65. If all would lead their lives in love like me,
Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

Thomas Campion

#66. 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

#67. My heart began to beat
like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party
honking their way through town.

Yann Martel

#68. I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.

Paul Fleischman

#69. I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

Charlie Watts

#70. testosterone flowing out of him like a leaking drum on a construction site.

Melia Alexander

#71. Everything makes love with silence.
They promised me a silence
like fire, a house of silence.
Suddenly the temple is a circus
the light a drum.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#72. Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

Ikue Mori

#73. 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

#74. If your heart beats like a drum, and your legs a little wet, it's because the Reaper's come to collect a little debt.

Pierce Brown

#75. He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.

Christopher Bram

#76. I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

Taylor Hawkins

#77. I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

Lauren Oliver

#78. Please, don't fuck the housekeeper. I like her and if you do something that makes her quit, I will break your favorite drum sticks.

Terri Anne Browning

#79. I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

Buddy Rich

#80. I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

Anthony Langston

#81. I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Thom Yorke

#82. At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

Bryan Ferry

#83. Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

J Mascis

#84. My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Jay Kay

#85. The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.

Margaret Atwood

#86. Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

John Bonham

#87. In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.

The Rocket Summer

#88. Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away
Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way
Cant you hear that
Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
He got that super bass
Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
Yeah that's that super bass

Nicki Minaj

#89. 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

#90. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Rumi