“Anyone who can breathe can play this frame drum!”
— Layne Redmond
“Remember: practice + patience = power!”
— Layne Redmond
“The Church fathers replied to members who pointed out the ancient traditions of worship with tambourines...[that] God, perceiving that they were too weak to give up music as well, had allowed them to use [the tambourine] in his worship -temporarily.”
— Layne Redmond, WDWW, p. 151
“...sculptures of women with frame drums have been identified as...”woman with cake....Anyone who has actually baked a cake would only attempt to carry it in this position once.”
— Layne Redmond, WDWW, p. 79
“As I entrained with the beat of the drum - I became the pulse itself...”
— Layne Redmond, WDWW, p. 180
“My curiosity about the female drummers....unexpectedly opened up a door to a forgotten spiritual technology.”
— Layne Redmond, WDWW, p. 191
“...the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother’s blood through her veins and arteries.”
— Layne Redmond, WDWW, p. 170
“Drumming is once again becoming a sacred technology.”