Drum Quotes
289 quotes by 227 authors
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I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar…
— Steven Tyler
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'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…
— Florence Welch
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save…
— Sherman Alexie
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
— Ken Kesey
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.
— Suheir Hammad
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the…
— Unknown Author
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I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken…
— Tom Waits
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And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own…
— Anne Rice
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Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals-…
— Shel Silverstein
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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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…
— Miley Cyrus
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daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm
— Nikki Giovanni
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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…
— Koren Zailckas
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The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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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…
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Drum Quotes
227 authors contributed a total of 289 Drum Quotes, led by these top contributors: