#rum

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#butterfly #caterpillar #drummer #ground #grub

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#bass #became #bit #did #drum

The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#drum #finds #heart #jungle #love

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#being #faith #heart #i #placing

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more. ↗

— Sean Young

#absence #course #create #defend #even

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #away #good #guitar

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body. ↗

— Stan Getz

#body #challenge #especially #far #goes

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#dream world #everybody #i #live #mom

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#america #anybody #based #french #headlines

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ↗

— William Gilbert

#blow #bound #chance #enhance #haven