Percussive Sound Quotes

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems that very few of them actually do.

I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.

I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.

Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.