To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

- Charles Baudelaire

What's really good is African drum music.

- Fiona Apple

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.

- Evelyn Glennie

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

- Elton John

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

- Dave Eggers

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

- Don Henley

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

- Charlie Watts

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

- Charlie Watts

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

- Chris Matthews

For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

- Chad Smith

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

- Armand Assante

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

- Billy Sherwood

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

- Billy Higgins

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

- Ben Barnes

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

- Buddy Rich

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

- Buddy Rich

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

- Bob Newhart

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

- Ben Harper

Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

- Aynsley Dunbar

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

- Andy Hertzfeld