Beats Quote by John Densmore Download Open image “The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.” — John Densmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beats Drum beats Firsts Heard Mother Parenting
We drummers all know that our mother's heartbeat was the first instrument we heard. As a race, we've all been trying to get back… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer. — James Brown Copy Share Image
I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has made advocating alternative energy sources a liberal/conservative thing, and an ideological battle, when it should really be about a… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s I went through my testosterone phase and had a Mercedes to show that I'm rich, and they used… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
First of all, Turtle Island is the name of this continent we live on... that's right, not 'America... as in North America,' but the… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
As long as there's young people, they can look to Jim to help them cut the umbilical chord. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
In my old age, I've learned that if I put the right cymbal crash in the very right spot, exactly, it can be as… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The Stones without Mick. The Police without Sting. The Doors without Jim. It doesn't work. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Money is like fertiliser. When spread around, things grow; when it's hoarded, it stinks. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
