Top 55 Banging Quotes

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

I don’t want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that’s not my agenda.

Playing two bigs out there is always a lot of fun. Banging on the rebounds, crashing the glass. It always feels better when you got another big down there with you.

I’ve been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says ‘We can’t, it’s the accent thing.’ For some reason it’s a very difficult accent to get right, harder even than Geordie.

The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.

I’m a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn’t just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn’t ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

We have to find a way to get the two forms of the game co-existing – and that involves administrators sitting down and banging their heads together and working out a framework. I understand the politics but I’m more interested in what’s best for the game.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

I kind of wanted to be a waitress in New York City. I thought it was fun and glamorous in its own way. Like in the movie ‘Beaches,’ when Bette Midler is banging on the radiator, and it’s cold, and she’s poor. I kind of thought that would be fun to be, like, a poor, struggling actor.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

Well, I love what you would call boys’ music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don’t like.

Before you have a hit song, all you’re doing is banging on the door and screaming, ‘I’ve got something I want to play…’ Now with the hit songs, they’re like, ‘Okay man, we’re listening. Whaddya got for us?’

We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we’re not talking about banging tin in the back room. We’re talking about high technology across the board, whether it’s computer chips or cars or anything in between.

I love TV, don’t get me wrong. But with film, you’re just banging out this one product and you’re not waiting on another script. You have your script. It’s great, in that way.

Without banging a drum or getting on a soap box, there are always ebbs and tides in this country in terms of the political and social climate that we might be dealing with at any given moment.

I don’t know why people keep banging on about the ’60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn’t go off with different people – I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

I’m into having a good time and showing people you can have fun. Because for a long time, the West Coast, it wasn’t about having fun. It was about gang banging; it just wasn’t fun no more. So now I’m bringing fun back.

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, ‘I’ll just see if there’s anything there.’ So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became ‘Year of Wonders,’ and lucky for me it found its readers.

My parents had a six floor warehouse on Curtain Road called Cordy House between 2004 and 2007 where we had some of the most banging and memorable London parties.

No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager’s plans.

I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I’d cross the road and into someone’s house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

I’m constantly bumping and banging into things.

Every season, I’ve adjusted. My first couple of years it was still banging in the post and doing all the nitty gritty stuff. Over the years, it’s changed to bigs being able to shoot and run the floor and be more agile, which is good for me because I’m a very agile guy.

I’m blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn’t enough.

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Hollywood’s not knocking on our door. They’re banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

I’ve met an 18-month-old baby whose dad says the child likes banging his toy hammer on the furniture when my songs are playing and I’ve met grandmothers who’ve bought all my discs.

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window… The day will come when she asks me, ‘Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?’

I’m kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.

We’ve been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we’ve been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

No matter who you are, and no matter what you’ve accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t still feel like they’re banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

Space is tight inside a tank: very close confines, and you’re permanently banging. Like in Brad Pitt’s new movie ‘Fury’ – the clanking of metal is all you hear.

Before I left the ‘Star’ last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.

The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it’s good to laugh about it. That’s my stance on life, actually. Some people go through life grinding their teeth, suffering and banging their head against the wall. I’m glad that’s not the reaction that occurs in me.

I just thought to myself, ‘What am I doing? Is this how I’m going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I’ve learned and know about the dangers?’

Banging my feet against the snow to get a grip on the ice, I damaged my artificial leg stump. On several occasions my artificial leg turned 180 degrees and I had to put it back to its normal position which slowed me down. I had to crawl along the slope to move forward, annoying the climbers behind me.

Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it’s a very strange feeling.

If you can’t go through it, find a way around it. Don’t spend all your time banging your head.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn’t pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

It’s weird what can trigger the beginning of a song or some bars. It can be a banging slice of apple pie or it can be smelling a certain perfume or something.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played instruments, too, and my mum used to have crazy house parties when me and my brother were young – dub and garage would be banging through my house.

I’ve been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That’s when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I’m for ever banging on about children learning to cook.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, ‘They don’t care about people with pre-existing conditions’ – There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

Remember we’re all human and we all have our good days and bad days and days when we feel banging and other days when we feel absolutely rotten and that’s ok.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.