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Percussionist Inspirational Quotes (704)

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Courage is action, not talk.
Jeff Rich
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Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
Lenny Kravitz
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
Evelyn Glennie
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There's no need for drama and hate, y'all. Let's love each other! We're all human, right?
Taylor York
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I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
Joe Walsh
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All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time and I like it.
Alison Mosshart
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The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.
Lenny Kravitz
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A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.
Mickey Hart
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Nothing is indeed true.
Brandon Boyd
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I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
Brandon Boyd
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
Richard P. Feynman
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The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
Richard P. Feynman
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I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
Evelyn Glennie
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You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
Roscoe Mitchell
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
Linda Ronstadt
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
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The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn't, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.
Babatunde Olatunji
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You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.
Terry Bozzio
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I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
Brandon Boyd
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
Richard P. Feynman
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
Richard P. Feynman
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It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
Richard P. Feynman
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Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.
Brandon Boyd
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If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like Get off the stage! and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.
Don Alias
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