Drum Beats Quotes

• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Victory And Defeat, Suffering

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• March to the beat of your own drummer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Healing, Teens, Overcoming Adversity

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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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

  Courage, Names, Everyday

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• This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

  Vanilla Ice

  Writing, Machines, Stuff

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• That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

  Charlie Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Focus

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• Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

  Pharrell Williams

  Genius, Care, Dinner

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Lonely, Heart

  "Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

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• Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

  Chad Smith

  Hands, Feet, Important

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• Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

  Cyndi Lauper

  Secret, Beats, Stolen

  Song: Time After Time 2014, Album: She's So Unusual

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• The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

  John Densmore

  Mother, Firsts, Beats

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

  Tommy Lee

  Crush, Band, Mixtures

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• Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

  Mike Gordon

  Play, Interesting, Trying

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• When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message...that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

  Mary Meeker

  Spiritual, Butterfly, Psych

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• Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

  Oliver Stone

  Differences, People, Littles

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• Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Assessment

  "The Ron Paul Problem". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or I've heared these words that everyone is saying. I want to hear new poetry, new guitar riffs, new drum-beats, new sounds. Then I'm really interested.

  Gordon Raphael

  Guitar, Band, Want

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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