{"quotes":[{"text":"The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accomplishment","bad-poetry","criticism","doggerel","drum","enjoyment","fulfillment","good-bad-poetry","good-poetry","indestructible","lyrics","misunderstood","music","perception","perseverance","persistence","perspective","pleasure","poet","poetry","reality","rhyme","rhythm","sense-of-accomplishment","sense-of-fulfillment","sense-of-perspective","sense-of-reality","sensory","sound","spoken-word","trouble","understand","unshakeable","words","work","writing"],"id":31552,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["attention","beat","cadence","christian","christianity","conductor","drum","follow","follower","following","god","hear","hearing","jesus","lead","leader","leadership","listen","listening","march"],"id":122143,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["believe-in-yourself","convert","converting","daring","disciple","divergence","drum","follower","headstrong","influence","initiative","lead","leadership","leading","men","michael-bassey-johnson","non-submission","nonchalance","nonchalant","noncomform","noncomformist","playing","power","real-man","real-men","stand-firm","standing-firm","uncompromise","working-hard"],"id":124863,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"What's really good is African drum music.","author":"Fiona Apple","tags":["good","drum","african "],"id":154106,"author_id":"Fiona+Apple"},{"text":"When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.","author":"Ruth Ozeki","tags":["drum","music","now","present","present-moment","time","time-passing"],"id":283299,"author_id":"Ruth+Ozeki"},{"text":"Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.","author":"Grigoris Deoudis","tags":["control","drum","evolution","heart","inner","inner-child","liberate","responsibility","rhythm"],"id":318211,"author_id":"Grigoris+Deoudis"},{"text":"Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["drum","ego","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","noise","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":366753,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["conversations","drum","electricity","heaviness","home","house","whispering"],"id":387422,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}