Drumming Quotes

“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Life is a paradiddle...

R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-L-R-LL... (repeat)

...put 1 stick in front of the other & find the zone!”
― Ross R. Mason

“The drumming was increasing in tempo, building to a climax I didn't understand. It had been so long since I'd seen a bare face that looked even vaguely human. His clothes- all black, all finely made- were cut close enough to his body that I could see how magnificent he was. As if he'd been moulded from the night itself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Music is a universal language. Playing music with others helps dissolve the walls we have built around ourselves for protection from the world, while highlighting our similarities rather than differences as Earthlings sharing a human experience. That’s why it is not just mere fun, but can be highly therapeutic as well. For it also teaches you to listen to your fellow humans and to share space, time, mindsets with them — to connect and non-verbally communicate in the present Here & Now.”
― Omar Cherif

“Drumming for me is not just mere fun. It is a cathartic, therapeutic, meditative practice, even spiritual. Without playing at least once a week, usually on the beach, my thoughts become discombobulated — full of words and concepts and analysis, including some nonsense, too. Music then comes to the help by lighting up the neurones of the brain which start firing up as soon as I decide to go drumming. And natural highs don’t have lows. Rather than thoughts, drumming is how I connect with my emotions, process and regulate them. I also get to commune with Mother Nature and its great outdoors. Like poetry in motion, the system is then alchemically recalibrated… until the next jam.

“The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.”
— Pythagoras”
― Omar Cherif