“I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise, whom Nature's beast fears as they come.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Dark Eyes
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“He who walks out of step hears another drum.”
Variant: He who marches out of line hears another drum.
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 1
“Sound the trumpets; beat the drums…
Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 50–51.
“In a world become blind,
I beat the drum of the Deathless.”
Ariyapariyesana Sutta http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.026.than.html
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Part I, section xxii, stanza 11
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
“Whom they fear, they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead.”
Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book II, Chapter 23
“Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”
In the liner notes of New York
“There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive.”
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
Context: There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive. And that's where I want to move now. I want to move to the point of saying that if this instinct is not harnessed, it becomes a very dangerous, pernicious instinct. For instance, if it isn’t harnessed, it causes one's personality to become distorted. I guess that's the most damaging aspect of it: what it does to the personality. If it isn't harnessed, you will end up day in and day out trying to deal with your ego problem by boasting. Have you ever heard people that—you know, and I'm sure you've met them—that really become sickening because they just sit up all the time talking about themselves. And they just boast and boast and boast, and that's the person who has not harnessed the drum major instinct. And then it does other things to the personality. It causes you to lie about who you know sometimes. There are some people who are influence peddlers. And in their attempt to deal with the drum major instinct, they have to try to identify with the so-called big-name people. And if you're not careful, they will make you think they know somebody that they don't really know. They know them well, they sip tea with them, and they this-and-that. That happens to people.