These are not really quotes about drumming per se, but their usefulness is undeniable.

Mistakes are defined in terms of their recovery (or lack thereof)

                --Taylor

Learning is finding out what you already know.  Doing is demonstrating that you know.  Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.  You are all learners, doers, teachers.

     --Richard Bach

Even when walking in a party of no more than three I can always be certain of learning from those who I am with.  There will be good qualities that I can select for imitation and bad ones which will teach me what requires correction in myself.

     --Confucius

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

     --Nigerian proverb

Genius is one-percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

     --Thomas Alva Edison

A mans errors are his portals of discovery.

     --James Joyce

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

     --Dean Rusk

Walk with the wise and you will become wise.

     --Proverbs 13:20

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

     --Struthers Burt

A man who has attained mastery in an art reveals it in his every action.

     --Samurai Maxim

It is a good thing...to read books of quotations.  The quotations, when engraved upon the memory give good thoughts.  They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

     --Sir Winston Churchill

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