Percussion Phrases

Phrases

• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As tight as a drum
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• 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
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• Go at it with hammer and tongs
• Hammer and tongs
• Hammer it home
• Hammer it out
• 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
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer (The Beatles song)
• 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)
• Popular music
• Put the hammer down
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Hammer (Nickname of Josh Willingham)
• The Hammer (Nickname of Kris Humphries)
• The Hammer (Nickname of Matt Carroll)
• The Hammer of The Scots (Nickname of King Edward I)
• The Hebrew Hammer (Nickname of Ryan Braun)
• The Holland Hammer (Nickname of Rick VandenHurk)
• The Polish Hammer (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• 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
• Under the hammer
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• 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