#velvet

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#bands #blood #challenge #composers #drum

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. ↗

— Martin Gore

#cover #i #i do #important #me

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. ↗

— David F. Houston

#abundant #also #available #bean #crop

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#covered #only #throne #velvet

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#character #developed #everything #fascinating #i

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#amazing #blue #during #first #heels

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#basically #blue #could #dorothy #felt

What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing. ↗

— Mandy Slade

#music #velvet-goldmine #beauty