Quotes About Drum

If the only time you bang the drum is when it's time to get someone elected, and you don't get involved in a mass movement, then you're working against real and substantive change.

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed—all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he laughing, of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets.

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.

Drum sei kein schellenlauter Tor, denn rechter Sinn und Weisheit tragen sich von selber vor.

I roamed alone; O, barren dreams. My echoed voice, what lonely comfort. Here is my salvation: I hear the triumph drum; the rhythm of the rising, the long-awaited sun.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Romanians love country dancing. At Christmas, you go house to house, and they play guitar and drum and a violin and everybody's on their feet - well, it's better than watching telly.

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

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

On the edge of things was the sound of the ocean, that tectonic drum, the heartbeat of the earth.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!