Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.
It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.
I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings.
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.
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.
I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.
I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.
I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.
[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.
'Kudi Maga' is a pub-style song, but the lyrics are really nice and the beats are catchy.
I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.
Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.
It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.
I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room - which is kind of crazy.
We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
Swaying to new beats, hearing old favorites, and drinking expensive beer are ageless pastimes.
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.
Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.
It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.
Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.
For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.
Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.
Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
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.
As comfortable as I am being single, nothing beats sharing your happiness with someone you love.
Ud Jana' is a rock song, so we have used funky beats to give it a youthful appeal.
Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.
As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.
I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
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