Gratitude

About Gratitude

Overview

"Gratitude" is a song by American rap rock group the Beastie Boys, from their third studio album Check Your Head. It was released in October 1992 as the fourth single for the album, primarily serviced to modern rock radio. The live version B-side was recorded in September 1992. The bass guitar in the song uses a Univox Superfuzz. The song was included in the video game Guitar Hero 5. Music video The music video to this song is a homage to the 1972 concert film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii and was recorded in Rotorua, New Zealand. The video was featured on Beavis and Butthead, who gave the song a positive review. Covers After touring as the opening act for the Beastie Boys, the Rollins Band often interweaved their own version of "Gratitude" (with new lyrics improvised by Henry Rollins) into their live set during their 1992 tour.

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Notable quotes

“Abdelnasser Abdelfattah and his sayings about Gratitude.”
— Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.”
— Dale Dauten, Cited in: Colleen Zuck etal. (2002) Daily Word for Families, p. 167.
“Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike.”
— p. 111
“To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston (1881), Chapter V.
“La reconnaissance est la mémoire du cœur.”
— Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
“"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts." Henri Frederic Amiel”
— The first two sentences are from William Taylor's English Synonyms Discriminated. --Hughh (talk) 16:39, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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