Top 1200 Drum Beats Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.
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.
Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down.
I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like 'Ungrateful Eyes,' with all the crazy drum swing.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.
The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.
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.
Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.
I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while.
I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.
If you see Michael Johnson running a race, and he beats someone by three strides, that's really dominating, but it's beautiful.
I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.
When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.
When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
'Jhankaar Beats' is a great movie with fabulous music. But when I see myself in it as an actor, I feel so tiny and young.
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
I love sequencing and programming, and I'm drawn to drum 'n' bass music. I love James Murphy's productions - and hey, he wears my socks!
Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.
I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
With today's technology, you can actually see the baby grow, move, and hear their little heart beats.
Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.
I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
Without banging a drum or getting on a soap box, there are always ebbs and tides in this country in terms of the political and social climate that we might be dealing with at any given moment.
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!
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
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.
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.
I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.
I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.
My beats and my production aren't dark or emo by any means; it's basically the lyrics I think, and the melody sometimes can be too.
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 powerful as all my showoff drum rolls in my 20s.
Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.
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.
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.
There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.
I was working for Johnny Shipes in New York when I was 17 years old, getting beats off.
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
If something is done really well then the question of live vs. DJ vs. instruments vs. drum machines doesn't matter - it's all just about taste, really.
Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built.
Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.
I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'
As much as I love to watch movies, nothing beats being ringside for a championship fight in boxing.
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.
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
