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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.
When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
We all have those friends that tick to their drum, and you don't want them to tick to anybody else's drum.
I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.
When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.
Jeff and Mike had taken drum lessons at a young age. When the Beatles came out in '64, we all wanted to play guitar.
When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.
In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.
The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
He was a very quiet and shy person but that drum kit gave him that voice. 'Bonzo' was the guy in Zeppelin. John was my dad.
The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.
One of my dreams was always to play alongside my father but I never got the chance because we only had one drum kit at home.
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
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.
During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.
Anyone I have musical chemistry with, I recruit, and we do shows and create drum kits together and make tunes for the SoundCloud.
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn't repeat itself. The players didn't stick to a format or formula.
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!
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.
I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion.
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.
I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.
It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a 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.