Quotes about drum
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Quotes about drum

Quote from Bevridge translation of the Baburnama https://archive.org/stream/baburnama017152mbp#page/n663/mode/2up

From a review of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, New English Weekly (21 March 1940)

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Conversation, New York, April 12, 1969 PrabhupadaBooks.com http://prabhupadabooks.com/conversations/1969/apr/new_york/april/12/1969?d=1
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Violence and Dictatorship

Richard Alexander Streatfeild Handel (2005) p. 195, citing Anton Schmid Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1854) p. 29
In conversation with Gluck.

“Empty heads make the best drums. And the emptier the head, the fuller the sound.”
Auf hohlen Köpfen ist gut trommeln. Und je hohler ein Kopf, desto voller das Echo.
Acceptance speech on receiving the Alternative Büchner Prize, 1993. MIZ - Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit. ISSN 0170-6748, Heft 3, 1993, ibka.org http://www.ibka.org/artikel/miz93/preis.html

I'm not gonna lie to you guys, George knows that I do it; I don't think he likes it!
Hot & Fluffy (2007)

This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play on his assassination and its aftermath, but there are no records of it prior to late 2000. It has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm
Misattributed

“Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”
In the liner notes of New York
“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

“As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 22 (p. 170)

Sane Man (1989)
Context: Rick Astley? Have you seen this banal incubus at work? Boy, if this guy isn't heralding Satan's imminent approach to Earth, huh. "Don't ever wanna make you cry, never wanna make you sigh … never gonna break your heart" … oh, I wouldn't worry about that without a dick, buddy. You got a corn nut! You got a clit! You're not even a guy! You're an AIDS germ that got off a slide! They're puttin' music to AIDS germs, they're puttin' a drum machine behind them in a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing 'em, God damn it! These aren't even people man! It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good!! Don't ya see? (Imitates stereotypical American in a robotic manner) "But Bill, malls are good! Malls allow us to shop 365 days of the year at a 72 degree heat. That must be good."

“daddy says the world is
a drum tight and hard
and i told him
i’m gonna beat
out my own rhythm”

“Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.”
Source: Zaatardiva
Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

“She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)
Written in 1997, from the liner notes for Jazz Corps (1998)

It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.
On how they are able to "sell what is really an art concept" to a mass audience
Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).
2007

E 65
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

On how he switched from drums to bass
Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius (1985)

Serck, Linda, Legendary producer Martin Rushent, 2009, http://www.getreading.co.uk/entertainment/music/s/2061462_legendary_producer_martin_rushent, Get Reading, 6 June 2011

As quoted in The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers (1984) by Max Weinberg and Robert Santelli

Post Presidential Election, Wellesley Commencement Speech (2017)

1880s, Speech to the 'Boys in Blue' (1880)

The Passing of the Armies: An account of the Army of the Potomac, based upon personal reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps (1915), p. 260

It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come.
Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around

Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml,
Soundgarden Era

Perrone, Pierre, Martin Rushent: Synth-pop pioneer and innovative producer of the Human League, the Stranglers and Buzzcocks, 2011, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/martin-rushent-synthpop-pioneer-and-innovative-producer-of-the-human-league-the-stranglers-and-buzzcocks-2294842.html, The Independent, 11 June 2011

“Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried.”
The Burial of Sir John Moore.

Song Drake's Drum (NB: the odd spelling reflects the Devon dialect).

Reported in Jon Blistein, " Keith Richards: Rap Is for 'Tone-Deaf People' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-richards-rap-is-for-tone-deaf-people-20150903", Rolling Stone (September 3, 2015).

1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
From "Nolan Ryan: The Untouchable," in Baseball Stars of 1973 (March 1973), edited by Ray Robinson, p. 92
Sports-related

Source: Steve Reich, Paul Hillier (2002) Writings on Music, 1965-2000, p. 55

Dada poetry lines from his poem 'Der Vogel Selbdritt', Jean / Hans Arp - first published in 1920; as quoted in Gesammelte Gedichte I (transl. Herbert Read), p. 41
1910-20s

"Rock Survivor: Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle keeps the music alive his way" http://tbrnews.com/lifestyle/rock-survivor-lynyrd-skynyrd-drummer-artimus-pyle-keeps-the-music/article_1c30bfee-1501-11e3-8bdb-001a4bcf887a.html, interview with The Beach Reporter (4 September 2013).

First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, (January 1963)
1960s

1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6

Source: The Man With the Iron Heart (2008), p. 56-57

Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)

1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
The Portable Door (2003)

www.huffingtonpost.com (September 7, 2007)
2007, 2008

"You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review (2004-03-25)

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

"No “MOO” for Me and Luna Marie", in her official website ConstanceMarie.net (11 August 2010) http://constancemarie.net/2010/no-moo-for-me-and-luna-marie.

“It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.”
Rachel on performing.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)
As quoted in "Voicing With a Heart" by Ernie Rideout, in Keyboard (August 2000)

[Artist Features: Steal This Article: John Dolmayan, Weiss, David, May 2003, http://drummagazine.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=241, 2007-01-08]

“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.

Edinburgh after Flodden, stanza XV, from Lays of The Scottish Cavaliers (1848)
July “BLOWBACK”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990)
[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, Alfred A. Knopf, 88, 0-679-74275-1]

From a radio interview with David Jensen in 1983
In interviews etc., About pop culture

(from vol 2, letter 32: 25 Aug 1779, to Mrs C___ ).

TV.com
Source: http://www.tv.com/patrick-stump/person/412086/summary.html TV.com Patrick Stump.

"School Days" (1957), Pop Chronicles Show 6 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19752/m1/
Song lyrics
Song The Carnival Is Over.