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Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.
The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect, nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape, stands alone among the instruments of noise.
Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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.
Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.
The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.
The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.
The best way to express rhythm is music.
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a reminder that you belong to a shared story.
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.
Rhythm is form cut into time.
Rhythm is what we beat our feet to. It is "the time relationship between tunes.
The Beats are really nothing more than a troop of malevolent Boy Scouts trying to earn badges for cultural arson.
The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.
The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.
Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.
When the music changes, so does the dance (Anon)
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.
Musicians sort of knew this already - that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.
You have to move to your own beat.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.
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.
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
It takes hard blows to raise a drumbeat but only one soft touch to raise a heartbeat
A dance to the music of time.
Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm
Music must be seen, and dance must be heard
The 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb,
We're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some.
Every time we do the sucka MC's wanna battle,
I'm the man they love to hate, the J.R. Ewing of Seattle ...
The bands were everywhere, close and faraway, a blend of discordant noise. He passed close to one now, a half-dozen drummers pounding away, a sergeant leading them in a rhythm that was no rhythm at all, and behind, men with fifes, squealing out something that had no resemblance to a song.
When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
The dichotomy of a drummer: worshiped but forgotten.
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
In that space between one beat and the next, all you are is potential. And that is where all the cool kids go to get their psychic powers.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.
We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what music those particles hear.
Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to.
Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.
In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
Dance is music made visible
When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.
A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.
I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.
Make the drummer sound good.
Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.
I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.
Beat, beat, pause. Contract, expand. Inhale, exhale.
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.
In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion
It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.
The Lion, the Beast, the Beat.
What's really good is African drum music.
I return my attention my drum
So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.
The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.
At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.
The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.
The melody of music!
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.
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.
Certain rhythms just have certain moods.
I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
I like the sound of 'claps of no sound..
Baby...drummers bang all night long!
Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.
The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex?
The drums were so near that the beat crept under his skin and set his hands to twitching.
When music hits you, you dance.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.