Famous quotes containing the words bass and/or drum:
“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)