Drum Phrases

Phrases

• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As tight as a drum
• Barrel load of laughs
• Barrel load of monkeys
• Barrel of laughs
• Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Drum break (A short drum solo in a song, or a form of brake on a vehicle)
• Drum circle (A circle of people playing drums)
• Drum n bass
• Drum up support
• Drummed out of the Mafia for cruelty
• Drummed out of the army
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Lock stock and barrel
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan song)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Over a barrel
• Popular music
• Pork barrel politics
• Pork barrel spending
• Scraping the bottom of the barrel
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Little Drummer Boy (Harry Simeone Chorale song)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Walking to the beat of a different drummer
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music