“Nieman, you earned the part. Alternates, will you clean the blood off my drum set?”— Damien Chazelle, Terence Fletcher, J.K. Simmons, imdb.com
“Its body was carved with men and pythons and little steps were cut on one side; without these the drummer could not climb to the top to beat it. When the Ikolo was beaten for war it was decorated with skulls won in past wars. But now it sang of peace.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com