Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheila E.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

Jeremih

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Johann Gottfried

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Todd Stewart

We raised all that money in one evening and we had great music. I take my drums to musical events and play with jam bands. We just jam... it's a very tight community.

Pat Mastelotto

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Taylor Lautner

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

James Galway

I always play the flute with the head-joint which comes on it.

James Galway

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

Chevy Chase

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Abigail Washburn

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

Ian Anderson

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

James Galway

The first flute I ever had was a Henry Potter wooden 5-keyed flute.

Ian Anderson

(The flute is) an instrument that doesn't lend itself very readily to rock music. It's a gentle and sensitive instrument. To make it work at rock 'n roll levels, you really have to push it pretty hard.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Matsuo Basho

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Rig Veda

It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

Bible Bible

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

Craig Barlow

I wouldn't play it any differently if I had to do it again, ... I'm sure we looked like fools down there, but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the fools of their tools

David Jason

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

Bebe Neuwirth

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" "Totally.

C. S. Lewis

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

Cecelia Ahern

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Antoine Rivarol

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Antoine Rivarol

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Hebrew Proverb

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Peter Capaldi

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

David Hall

No. I don't know how to get in touch with them now. I do know that some of them were wounded in the same battle.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Carlos Emmons

We'd look at film and see linebackers not get touched and they would get praised, ... And I was like 'Hey, we don't get touched, I'll make every play.'

Joe Royle

Wycombe have been in touch and Aidan is going down there to have a look around the place and train with them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Bill Crawford

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't...

Bill Cosby

Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Bill Cosby

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Bill Cosby

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Bill Cosby

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

Big Pun

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

C. S. Lewis

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.