Traffic jam Quote by Mary Ellen Kelly

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.

— Shawn Amos

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

— Mickey Hart

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

— Mickey Hart

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

— Yungblud

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of…

— Ken Burns

The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on…

— James F. Cooper

Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.

— Burna Boy

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

— Mos Def

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

— Gene Krupa

We literally have some of us in the modern culture trying their best to stomp out every other way of life, really. People in…

— Mr. Lif

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

— Althea Gibson

Americans do have a tendency to wind people up. When they are chanting U-S-A and there are lots of them, it just makes you…

— Paul Casey