Best Cymbals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You entered the room stirring air with suppleness of walk waking up the stillness with jingles of cymbals making curtains dance to the sound of bangles.”

Love Romance Desire Praise Dance You Cymbals Bangles Jingle

Author:Suman Pokhrel

“I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.”

Should Symbols Symbolism Cymbals

Author:Edward Albee

“Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.”

War Conditions Transition Crash Rupture Cymbals

Author:George Will

“Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.”

People Men Has Beens Names Written Reader Sells Advertising Merit Goods Sincerity Abiding Advertisements Brass Cymbals

Author:Bruce Barton

“Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”

People Faith Player Streets Middle Draws Silly Preacher Indulgence Crossroads Sellers Mules Evangelists Cymbals Fiddlers

Author:Francois Rabelais

“It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.”

Together Artist Certain Easy Achieve Effects Unity Colour Allowing Lullaby Matisse Cymbals

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.”

Doe Love Is Talking Truth Is Hollow Without Love Jars Love Is Like Brass Jingles Cymbals

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.”

Humans Half Music Rich Sweet Trump Guitar Horns Flutes Pining Cymbals

Book:Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed

Source: Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed

“I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.”

Want I Can Jobs Sound Perfection Strive Cymbals

Author:Chris Johnson

“A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.”

Justice Talking Judging Ill Cymbals

Author:Francis Bacon

“A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.”

Enough Sound Situation Modern Band Lows Bass Dense Cymbals

Author:James Hetfield

“Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.”

Thinking Doe Feelings Passion Knowing Seeing Flow Empty Affection Delight Doctrine Artificial Rooted Hollow Noisy Savoring Gongs Cymbals

Author:John Piper

“There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.”

Heart Spirit Courses Guts Throat Crash Lungs Brass Practicality Cymbals

Author:Laurence Olivier

“I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.”

Guitar Referring Saxophone Cymbals

Author:Mike Gordon

“I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.”

Stills Sticks Teeth Punk Drummer Seattle Cymbals

Author:Meredith Brooks

“When it comes to certain kind of rhythm things, particularly like shaker or tambourine tracks. I like the way I can really lock up with my own Hi Hat or Ride Cymbal beat. So a lot of times in recording I'll be asked -- or even volunteer -- to put a shaker or tambourine track on. Just to give it something extra. And it always works great. I hate it when I'm in the studio and I don't have any shakers or tambourines with me. I've been on a few dates when we didn't have anything and tried to improvise shakers out of some uncooked rice in soda cans. It sounded horrible.”

Way Giving Kind I Can Certain Hate My Own Beats I Hate Track Studios Horrible Rhythm Extras Hats Locks Volunteer Rice Soda Shakers Lock Up Cymbals

Author:Peter Erskine

“What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.”

Looks Dream Young Musician Exciting Inches Chrome Cymbals

Author:Neil Peart

“I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any crash cymbals. It just makes for an interesting sound because you don't really notice it when it's not there, but if it was there, you would definitely hear it.”

Ifs Want Littles Stills Use Stuff Bits Sound Interesting Band Little Bit Hats Crash Standing Out Cymbals

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

“I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.”

People Ifs Knows Want Writing Made Pieces Toms Solo Orchestra Composing Overhead Drumming Cymbals

Author:Terry Bozzio

“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.”

Ifs Ends Done Roles Jokes Stuck Clash Nowhere To Go Cymbals

Author:Bob Newhart

“She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.”

Said Book Song Language Voice Understood Rose Charm Jingles Cymbals Great Gatsby Love Gatsby Love

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.”

Trying Together Behinds Standing Upset Bombs Pairs Now And Then Behind You Cymbals

Book:The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

Source: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

“Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals- We'll just slap our hands together, And though there may be orchestras That sound a little better With their fancy shiny instruments That cost an awful lot- Hey, we're making music twice as good By playing what we've got!”

May Littles Play Hands Together Sound Havens Cost Beats Instruments Awful Hey Noses Fancy Belly Orchestra Horns Slap Cymbals Hands Together

Author:Shel Silverstein

“True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

Writing Long Action Song Speak Praise Notes Manifest Sermons Our Words Brass Cymbals

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.”

Light Turns Sun Conscience Murder Snow Golden Judgement Perpetual Summoning Cymbals

Author:Janet Frame

“The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.”

Running Moon Rounds Nervous Harvest Machinery Merry Reeds Flutes Baroque Stallions Merry Go Round Cymbals Carousels Harvest Moon

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.”

Ifs Men Giving Body Moving Speak Poor Nice Mystery Mountain Gains Notes Tongue Surrender Flames Prophecy Angle Fathom Move Mountains Posse Gongs Cymbals

Author:Benjamin Carson

“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Love Faces Company Loneliness Solitude True Love Crowds Real Friends Gallery No Love Cymbals

Author:Francis Bacon

“This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.”

Feels Moving Alive Blood Hot Guitar My Favorite Favorites Things Cymbals

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he was born to write. And if you prefer your novels brazen, poignant and hilarious, as I do, you were born to read it. Like a great show, this will stay with you long after the last cymbal crash and power strum.”

Ifs Writing Long Book Shows Happens Lasts Stars Born Fiction Novel Rocks Crash Gifted Rock Star Fiction Writers Poignant Brazen Cymbals

Author:Sam Lipsyte

“More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.”

“Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?”

Needs Energy Army Storm Ashamed March Excess Tumult Rioting Cymbals

Book:The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty

Source: The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty

“If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.”

People Ifs Should Young Church Flower Hair Dancing Horns Be Young Cymbals

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”

Ifs Love Age Earth Speak Language Angel If I Could Noisy Gongs Cymbals

Author:Paul the Apostle

“The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.”

Player Credit Drummer Cymbals

Author:Peter Erskine

“Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

Madness Mood Poetry Is Bells Lacking Whim Lighters Cymbals

Book:The works

Source: The works

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