“Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.”
Suheir Hammad (1973) American poet, author, performer, and political activist
Source: Zaatardiva
“The harder they hit us, the louder we become, kind of like the skin on a drum.”
Skin On The Drum, Stay Human (2001)
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“It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.”
Rachel Trachtenburg (1993) American musician
Rachel on performing.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 3.
Thomas Paine book The American Crisis
The Crisis No. I (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776).
Source: 1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Context: THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: All Hail and Hallelujah
“In a world become blind,
I beat the drum of the Deathless.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Ariyapariyesana Sutta http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.026.than.html <br class="br">Unclassified
“There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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.
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) German, later British Baroque composer
Richard Alexander Streatfeild Handel (2005) p. 195, citing Anton Schmid Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1854) p. 29
In conversation with Gluck.