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Quotes About Beat

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
~ W. H. Auden
Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
~ Questlove
Rhythm is form cut into time.
~ Ezra Pound
I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
~ Rick Mercer
Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.
~ Beck
My heart is beating a punk rock song against my chest.
~ Sherman Alexie
Oh, gods, you're mated! I really hope it's to Aimee. (Bride) Thankfully so. Otherwise I'd have had to kill me some ho and then beat Fang senseless. (Aimee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Or more precisely, is there anything I can do for you, ma'am? (Waiter) 'How about a bag for my head, or a stick to beat Lanie with?' (Grace)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
~ Virginia Woolf
Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way. —RUMI
~ Elizabeth Lesser
I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.
~ Mustard
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
~ Lakeith Stanfield
It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.
~ Playboi Carti
I think the sound of 'The Infamous' came naturally from our lifestyle and some of the criminal things we were doing. We always rap about what we're living, and to put a beat to lyrics like those is hard.
~ Prodigy
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
~ Archie Shepp
I just liked the Beat poets. It was rapid fire, in the moment.
~ Tyler Childers
I'm a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn't matter.
~ JaVale McGee
Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.
~ Madlib
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
~ Nina Simone
I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.
~ Awkwafina
There is a lot of respect for Real Madrid, but it doesn't mean we can't beat them.
~ Giorgio Chiellini
I want to compliment Francesco Totti: scoring 206 goals is a great achievement. It does not matter that he has beat me, as he is a great player.
~ Roberto Baggio
Politicians love to beat up on guys that are seen to be public enemies, if you will. That's a great way to get elected.
~ Martin Shkreli