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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

Ray Bradbury
Running, Moon, Cymbals
Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

Peter Erskine
Player, Credit, Cymbals

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Edward Albee
Symbolism, Cymbals, Should

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Pietro Aretino
Bells, Cymbals, Madness
Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

Laurence Olivier
Heart, Cymbals, Spirit

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

Bob Newhart
Done, Cymbals, Nowhere To Go
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any crash cymbals. It just makes for an interesting sound because you don't really notice it when it's not there, but if it was there, you would definitely hear it.

Sune Rose Wagner
Interesting, Cymbals, Stuff
"The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

Mike Gordon
Guitar, Cymbals, Saxophone
Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

Meredith Brooks
Teeth, Cymbals, Sticks

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