#rum

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#dream #exigencies #i #i dream #inner

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back. ↗

— Peter Criss

#back #drums #during #go #i

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. ↗

— George Crumb

#development #idioms #instrumental #music #new

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer. ↗

— Dick Dale

#buddy #buddy rich #could #doing #drummer

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out. ↗

— James Daly

#distracted #excellence #focus #got #just

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics. ↗

— John Fogerty

#i #instrument #kind #lap #only

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. ↗

— John Fowles

#always #anymore #become #comes #each

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#body #hard #head #instruments #man

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#bill clinton #burst #clinton #closets #compass